Review of With Honors (1994) by Kenny N — 09 Jun 2015

Bullshit. That's what this film is. It tries sooo hard to make us believe this plot could actually happen. And then it tries to make us care about two utterly unsympathetic jackasses. Joe Pesci is particularly bad as the clever and plainspoken bum.

Sure, Fraser is a pompous ass, but stealing his thesis and making him pay you to get it back? Sorry, that's not being the underdog, it's being a thief and an extortionist. And if my liberal heart can't be moved by someone who's so unpleasantly manipulative just because he's homeless (not quite the get out of jail free card they seem to think it is) I can't imagine many others will.

And those brilliant professor-humiliating arguments? All heart and no argument. I've heard better from freshmen at decidedly non-Ivy League universities.