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	Stuart Smalley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stuart Smalley is a fictional character that was invented and performed by actor, comedian, author, and political activist Al Franken.
		Stuart is a member of many (sometimes fictional) twelve-step groups, including Overeaters Anonymous, Children of Alcoholic Parents Anonymous, and Children of Rageaholic Parents Anonymous.
		It is frequently hinted that Stuart may be gay, but his sexual preference is never clearly stated in the sketches, movie, or novel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stuart_Smalley (760 words)

	Stuart Saves His Family (1995) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Goofs: Revealing mistakes: When Stuart is reliving his recurring dream about saving his father's life, you can see the top of the airbag while the stunt man is falling from the roof.
		Stuart Smalley: "Dear Stuart, your show gave me the courage to feel my feelings, and to feel my feelings about my feelings, and my feelings about my feelings about my feelings.
		"Stuart Saves His Family" is another pure mess as the titled psychiatrist (the likeable Al Franken) goes home after his aunt's death and tries to keep his family talking to each other, but fireworks just continue going off with what are supposed to be hilarious results.
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	Stuart Saves His Family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stuart Saves His Family is a 1995 comedy film directed by Harold Ramis, and based on a series of popular Saturday Night Live sketches from the early-to-mid 1990s.
		The movie tracks the adventures of would-be self-help guru Stuart Smalley, a creation of writer/comedian Al Franken, as he attempts to save both his deeply troubled family and his low-rated cable access show.
		Though the film did not fare well at the box office, the response from critics was pretty evenly mixed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stuart_Saves_His_Family (123 words)

	Doggone it, people will love latest SNL spinoff
		Stuart's life, like his cable-TV show, is populated chiefly by grown children from dysfunctional families: co-dependents, rage-aholics, overeaters, debtors, adult children of alcoholics - "You know," Stu says, "my people." The movie chronicles its characters' attempts to overcome their past and to escape from their respective demons.
		No matter what Stuart tries in order to "save" his family, his efforts always fail so that he is left staring into his trademark mirror and attempting to cure himself.
		Stuart Saves His Family is an enjoyable and poignant portrayal of a dysfunctional family.
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	Stuart Saves His Family -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Stuart Saves His Family is a 1995 comedy film directed by (additional info and facts about Harold Ramis) Harold Ramis, and based on a series of popular (additional info and facts about Saturday Night Live) Saturday Night Live sketches from the early-to-mid (The decade from 1990 to 1999) 1990s.
		The movie tracks the adventures of would-be self-help guru Stuart Smalley, a creation of writer/comedian (additional info and facts about Al Franken) Al Franken, as he attempts to save both his deeply troubled family and his low-rated cable access show.
		It is currently available on (additional info and facts about VHS) VHS and (A digital videodisc; a recording (as of a movie) on an optical disk that can be played on a computer or a television set) DVD.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/st/stuart_saves_his_family.htm (155 words)

	DVD Authority \| DVD Review of Stuart Saves His Family
		Stuart Saves His Family uses themes we can all relate to, but then twists and turns them into much darker ones, which kind of forces us to laugh at times.
		After all, Stuart's family and friends have such an impact on him, I knew it would take some good writing to create a background for him and then bring it all to life.
		Stuart Saves His Family is presented in a 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer.
	www.moviereviewindex.com /getreview/6162 (1371 words)

	Culture Snob \| Movies \| Heal Thyself (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The plot is pretty simple, as Stuart Smalley (Franken) has to deal with having his cable-access show canceled while various family crises erupt — fist fights, a hunting accident, an intervention — almost all of them created by his father’s alcoholism.
		Stuart must also confront past traumas, including a family photograph in front of the famous “Hollywood” sign that must be taken at any cost, traffic be damned.
		The key is that the movie gives Stuart some context — a family that provides many, many reasons for him to desperately need those daily affirmations — and the opportunity to actually make some progress in his endless spiritual and mental-health journeys.
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	‘Stuart Saves His Family’ (PG-13)
		And so, early on in "Stuart Saves His Family," the sad new comedy based on the late-night TV character, when this basket case extraordinaire learns that his show has been dumped, there is every reason to expect the worst.
		Stuart is the newest super un-hero of the '90s, the over-eating son of an alcoholic Everyman who by some miracle pulls off the impossible and survives his own childhood.
		There's a genuinely tragic side to Stuart's character, and for the movie to work the filmmakers have to keep it in balance with the comedy so that the pathos of his life doesn't kill all the laughs.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/stuartsaveshisfamilypg13hinson_c010a0.htm (400 words)

	Stomp Tokyo Review - Stuart Saves His Family
		Although Stuart's four different 12-step group sponsors try to pull him out of his depression, what gets him going is the news that his favorite aunt has died.
		Stuart's dysfunction and family life are far too real for a character out of SNL, and people expecting a madcap comedy won't be rewarded.
		Most of Stuart's show segments are worth watching as well, which shouldn't be surprising as they are the essential material upon which the Smalley character was based in the first place.
	www.stomptokyo.com /movies/stuart-saves-his-family.html (548 words)

	Stuart Saves His Family id
		Stuart is a character found in a lot of families, I know there are "Stuarts" in mine.
		Al Franken was very watchable in the role of Stuart Smalley - the (mostly) positive title character who goes on a journey of discovery and learns that despite his best efforts and intentions, the only person he has the power to save is himself.
		And while it's clear that Stuart isn't going to succeed in everything he attempts (his father is far too content with the way he is to want to change, even with the threat of jail hanging over his head), there are some small successes that make it worth the effort.
	www.ourlyrics.net.ru /ID_B000059TET,911 (1168 words)

	The Memphis Flyer: Video - September 4, 1997
		Stuart Saves His Family (1995, Directed by Harold Ramis) -- Movies based on Saturday Night Live comedy sketches are not exactly known for their ability to amuse or entertain.
		Stuart Saves His Family is a pleasing exception to the dreadful rule.
		(Though Stuart, always sporting an atrocious sweater and ridiculous grin, has an appearance that begs for laughter before the lines leave his mouth.) While his family never ceases to amuse, the film also features some heavier scenes that truly address some of the problems that are so frequently joked about in the movie.
	www.memphisflyer.com /backissues/issue446/video446.htm (661 words)

	phoenixnewtimes.com \| \| Film \| SMALLEY FACE \| 1995-04-20 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		But just for the record, Stuart Saves His Family is the most daring and least one-joke of all the SNL movie spin-offs so far.
		Stuart is such a broadly caricatured figure--sleeveless sweaters, overcoifed sandy hair, soothingly earnest voice that always seems to be on the gurgly edge of a sob--that he provides a sort of Brechtian distance on the relative realism with which his family is depicted.
		Stuart emerges as a true comic hero--his quest to conquer his own foibles is exhilarating.
	www.phoenixnewtimes.com /issues/1995-04-20/film2.html (501 words)

	Stuart Saves His Family Movie Review
		Stuart isn't necessarily a Forrest clone, but he's a socially-challenged individual who overcomes great adversity to attain fame and prosperity.
		Stuart's family is as dysfunctional as they come.
		Since each member of Stuart's family is initially introduced as a stereotypical caricature, it's difficult to accept any of them in a situation where they're intended to be taken seriously.
	www.killermovies.com /s/stuartsaveshisfamily/reviews/1xi.html (630 words)

	Stuart Saves His Family (DVD) - only $20.99 at Deals, Etc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Eventually Stuart`s show is canceled, and he must face unemployment with the help of his various 12-step sponsors.
		All of this bad behavior is almost too much for the recovered Stuart, as he is forced to face his family`s weaknesses as they all battle to understand one another.
		Through a series of familial disasters and increasingly dysfunctional behavior, Stuart must decide whether his family is worth saving or if he must leave them all behind for good.
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		Stuart's decision at this point is one of the many interesting things about his character.
		Another flashback, where Stuart's brother and father mock his entering a competition gets laughs from their comments, but also makes us remember a time when we were let down by our family.
		Stuart Saves His Family certainly isn't for everyone - but to paraphrase someone, I thought it was good enough, smart enough, and I liked it.
	www.badmovieplanet.com /unknownmovies/reviews/rev111.html (1146 words)

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		At the same time, his family is in trouble due to a death of a relative and inheritance issues, not to mention the personal problems each of them have.
		His father (and all the men in his family) is a raging alcoholic, his mother is a stifled homebody, his sister is a chronic overeater, and his brother is a potsmoking layabout.
		Stuart tries to solve his professional and family crises through caring and feeling words, which continually get him into more trouble.
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	‘Stuart Saves His Family’ (PG-13)
		"Stuart," the movie version of Franken's recurrent "Saturday Night Live" TV sketch (and Franken's book, "I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Me!") would be a movie to commit suicide by, if the doom-and-gloom atmosphere weren't so funny.
		Most of the men in Franken's family, for instance, have died of alcoholism.
		It is precisely Franken's eye-rolling vision of his family that makes the Smalleys more than just a collection of blood-related jerks.
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	Film & TV: The VideoPhile (Memphis Flyer . 09-08-97)
		Stuart Saves His Family (1995,Directed by Harold Ramis) -- Movies based on Saturday Night Livecomedy sketches are not exactly known for their ability to amuseor entertain.
		Stuart Saves His Family is a pleasingexception to the dreadful rule.
		His "personal crisis"begins when his cable access show, Daily Affirmations WithStuart Smalley, is cancelled by his nemesis Roz Weinstock,who Stuart declares a "grandiose, shame-based, over-eater,sick in her own disease." Quickly thereafter, Stuart's auntPaula dies, and he is compelled to go home to his dysfunctionalclan, complete with alcoholic brother and father, co-dependentmother, and overeating sister.
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	DVD Review: Stuart Saves His Family
		There's the father (Haris Yulin) who calls Stuart a "waste of space", a brother (Vincent D'Onofrio) who gets wasted too often for his own good, an overeating sister and other various characters whose problems Stuart must settle, but not before he finds the answers to his own.
		There were a few little flaws (but like Stuart might say, "We still love you, Paramount.") Some little instances of pixelation and edge enhancement appeared, as well as a few minor scratches and marks, but these were really nothing to get too worried about as they remained minor.
		SOUND: "Stuart Saves His Family" is presented in Dolby Digital 5.1, but the film really has little for the surrounds to do.
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	Stuart Saves His Family mistakes, goofs and bloopers
		Stuart Saves His Family (1995) - 2 mistakes
		Soon after the hospital scene you are taken to the therapist's office and the family is talking about sending the father off to the rehab center.
		Continuity: In the scene at the bar where Stuart and Donny are playing pool, Donny is aiming at the red 7 ball.
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	DVD : Stuart Saves His Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Expanding on his SNL character, Franken paints Stuart's wildly dysfunctional family with broad, knowing brushstrokes.
		Stuart is an example of a typical family....Dysfunctional to the core.
		If you have ever been a 12 stepper or in therapy, Stuart is a must.
	www.northmissionroad.com /Reviews/ItemId/B000059TET/ReviewPage/6 (296 words)

	Baltimore City Paper: FILM Stuart Saves His Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The film expands beyond the boundaries of Stuart's hapless self-help TV show and introduces the disturbingly realistic dysfunctional family that formed him—an unraveling working-class unit headed by an alcoholic dad (veteran character actor Harris Yulin).
		Stuart, of course, is a mess, but his relentless 12-stepping makes him the only Smalley who's aware and concerned enough to try to turn the clan around.
		Yulin deserves some sort of backdated B-movie Oscar for his scene-stealing performance, but it is Franken who truly impresses as he turns Stuart into a full-fledged character, and one well worth rooting for.
	www.citypaper.com /film/review.asp?id=2752 (225 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Stuart Saves His Family
		Stuart now must relive the trails and tribulations that he faced when he grew up, including an alcoholic father (Yulin), a co-dependant mother (Knight), a stoner brother (D'Onofrio), and an over eating, over panicked sister (Lesley Boone).
		Stuart doesn't just come off as a puffy, love-soaked simpleton; he is a real person with real feelings.
		Stuart went through a lot of trials, and the more of Stuart's family we meet, the more we understand how he came to be.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/stuartsaves.php (1269 words)

	Daily Affirmation with Stuart Smalley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Stuart Smalley is a caring nurturer, a member of several twelve-step programs, but not a licensed therapist.
		His father was "a big stinking drunk" who called chubby Stuart, "a waste of space." Stuart's mom is "a total loon and in complete denial about Dad's drinking," while his brother is a dope addict.
		Still, Stuart maintains a good and positive attitude throughout his show, while helping people solve their problems.
	home.hawaii.rr.com /snlcn/franken/stuart.html (112 words)

	Stuart Saves His Family
		Stuart Saves His Family, starring Al Franken and Laura San Giancomo (pictured above) was released in 1995 and based on Al Franken's book I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Me! which itself was based on the character he had been developing for years on the TV show Saturday Night Live!.
		His show is cancelled, his favorite aunt dies (she was the only person in his family that gave him any affection while he was growing up) and his family is in desperate need of help.
		The rest of the book is self-referential (in terms of "refers to Stuart") as it is supposed to be a self-help book, but it turns out to be completely about Stuart and his problems.
	www2.gol.com /users/kcleary/cc/stuart (1335 words)

	Buy.com - Stuart Saves His Family : DVD : Al Franken : Lesley Boone : Harold Ramis : Paramount
		Stuart's "shame spiral" begins when his cable-access show, Daily Affirmations With Stuart Smalley, is abruptly canceled.
		Stuart is forced to accept the unfortunate facts of his dismal life when his cable-access show is canceled and he loses a beloved family member at the same time.
		The beauty of Stuart Saves His Family...is that it's somehow true to Stuart at the same time it sees the humor in him.
	www.buy.com /prod/Stuart_Saves_His_Family/q/loc/322/40150335.html (682 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Stuart Saves His Family : Plot
		One day, Stuart's friend Julia (Laura San Giacomo) tells him that a cable network is looking for programming, and suggests he should pitch his show to them.
		Soon Stuart has a nationwide audience and is actually able to support himself, but that's small comfort when his family falls into another crisis.
		By turns a goofy comedy and a serious look at a dysfunctional family, Stuart Saves His Family does feature a few strong dramatic performances by Laura San Giacomo, Vincent D'Onofrio and Shirley Knight, and a distinctive comic turn by Julia Sweeney as a guest on Stuart's show.
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/92788/plot.jhtml (203 words)

	Stuart Saves His Family - Movie Tome
		Stuart Smalley, the Saturday Night Live character, comes to the big screen.
		Stuart, the disciple of the 12 step program, is challenged by lifes injustices.
		Stuart is supported by his 12 step sponsors as a he regresses back to his negative behaviors each time he faces these challenges.
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