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Starring:
Steve Martin, Madeline Kahn, Robert Klein, Anthony LaPaglia, Juliette Lewis, Rob Reiner, Adam Sandler, Rita Wilson, Garry Shandling, Liev Schreiber
Directed By:
Nora Ephron
Written By:
Nora Ephron, Delia Ephron
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Mixed Nuts (1994)
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Movie Review by Zara 
January 24th, 2007
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Jon Stewart on rollerblades!
I actually paid movie to see this movie in the theater when it was originally released, but couldn't remember much about it aside from the fact that Adam Sandler has a minor contributing role. MIXED NUTS plays out much like a movie that you're never going to remember, other than the annoying little odd bits here and there. It's not a good movie by any stretch of the imagination. Yet it's far better to trudge through if you're sick and tired of Charlie Brown reruns and whatever special by whatever pop princess NBC has suckered you into watching by refusing to air anything else.
The movie is a remake of the 1982 French movie, LE PERE NOEL EST UNE ORDURE. I haven't seen it and thereby cannot make any assertions as to whether this version is any better or worse. I do know that it's a strange movie with an unbelievable set of premises, a cast full of people whose name power would have driven the flick to being an instant classic if it were to have been released 10 years after it first was. Then again, I doubt many of the actors in it would have chosen to participate at that time.
I wish I could state a more definitive position on whether or not I liked this movie. See, there are scenes with certain actors that I really liked (Madeline Khan stuck in the elevator, playing with the child's toy and discovering what all the buttons do is one of them) as well as scenes where that same actor gets on my nerves. Although, while they're doing that, someone else picks up the slack and pulls through (Liev Schreiber is absolutely enchanting as a depressed drag queen). The movie is absurd and uneven, but it can boast one thing that most holiday movies cannot: Jon Stewart wearing spandex and rollerblading. Top that, Charlie Brown!!
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