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Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee Movie Critic
This most companionable film takes a few nice turns, some predictable, some unexpected -- and winds up as a winsome love story with a healthy message. It is actually one of the best family films around. And the many jokes come not from the modest, sitcomlike plot but from the little asides and details invested in it by writer John Scott Shepherd. ...
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
"Joe Somebody" plays like an after-school special, with grownups cast in the kids' roles. It's a simple, wholesome parable, crashingly obvious, and we sit patiently while the characters and the screenplay slowly arrive at the inevitable conclusion. It needs to take some chances and surprise us. ...
David Kronke
L.A. Daily News
It's come to this: Someone has gone and made a motion picture based on that old Charles Atlas ad in comic books. You know the one -- where the guy decides to "gamble" a postage stamp and is soon proclaimed "Hero of the Beach"? Wait, scratch that. A movie based on Charles Atlas ads would be both more realistic and more entertaining than the moist, dithering hackwork slinking into theaters under the moniker "Joe Somebody." ...
Jerry McCormick
San Diego Union-Tribune
Panettiere, so brilliant as the coach's daughter in "Remember the Titans," continues her little-girl-who-knows-more-than-the-adults routine and once again, it works. She's truly the brightest spot in the film. ...
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Joe Somebody
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(2001)
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Overview:
Everybody wants to be somebody and Joe Scheffer (Tim Allen) is no exception. A talented video specialist at a Minneapolis pharmaceutical company, he regularly has been passed over for a long-promised promotion. Things for Joe go from "ordinary" to worse when he endures the cruelest cut of all -- the loss of his cherished personal parking space -- at the hands of the office bully Mark McKinney (Patrick Warburton).
Starring:
Tim Allen, Julie Bowen, Hayden Panettiere, Patrick Warburton, Kelly Lynch, Greg Germann, Robert Joy and Jim Belushi
Directed by:
John Pasquin
Written by:
John Scott Shepherd
Cinematographer:
Daryn Okada
Composer:
George S. Clinton
Studio:
20th Century Fox
Release Date:
Dec. 21, 2001
MPAA Rating:
(PG) - for language, thematic elements and some mild violence
Running Time:
97 minutes
Websites:
Official Site
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