Stealing Harvard

Stealing Harvard is a 2002 American slapstick action comedy film directed by Bruce McCulloch and written by Martin Hynes and Peter Tolan, about a man who resorts to crime to pay for his niece's Harvard tuition. The film stars Jason Lee and Tom Green with Leslie Mann, Dennis Farina, Richard Jenkins, John C. McGinley, Tammy Blanchard, and Megan Mullally; director McCulloch appears in a minor role. It was produced by Columbia Pictures, Revolution Studios and Imagine Entertainment and released on September 13, 2002, by Sony Pictures Releasing. Film critic reviews were generally negative, and the film was a box office bomb by grossing $14.3 million against a $25 million budget.