Confused-teen-crazy-world comedy, fairly formulaic (a gallery of stereotypes, a splash of gross-out, a dab of sentiment, an instructive moral), notwithstanding the genuflections to Fine Literature. Agile comic turns by Jack Black, Catherine O'Hara, Lily Tomlin, and John Lithgow. But the romantic leads, Colin Hanks and Schuyler Fisk, bear so strong a resemblance to their real-life thespian parents -- Tom Hanks and Sissy Spacek, respectively -- that they have a hard time staking their own claim. The director, Jake Kasdan, is the son of the director of The Big Chill, Silverado, I Love You to Death, Grand Canyon, French Kiss, etc., but outside of an uncredited token appearance by Kevin Kline, the resemblance is not so apparent. (2002) — Duncan Shepherd
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