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Actors: Adrian Grenier, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Joey Lauren Adams, Eric Stoltz, Rebecca Gayheart
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Harvard Man |
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HARVARD MAN is a film written and directed by James Toback in 2001.
Alan Jensen is studying philosophy at Harvard and plays basketball in the university team. Now Alan needs $100,000 to help his parents in Kansas who have lost all their possessions as a result of the last tornado. His girl-friend Cyndi, the daughter of a local mob boss, tells him that her father will give him the money if Adam agrees to fix the next game he will take part in. Adam says yes.
Adam, who's also an expert on drugs, has just received some tablets of pure LSD, made specially for him by a student in chemistry. He's so happy with the idea of having been able to help his parents that he gulps down all his tablets while flying back to Boston. What Adam doesn't know is that Cyndi's father was under FBI surveillance and that he's himself tailed by an agent. Undergoing disturbing hallucinations and hearing voices, Adam will have notheless to face the consequences of his reprehensible act on the same day.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Harvard Man |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Time/era of movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Crime & Scandal
Yes
Story of
- life in drug culture
- con-artist/white collar crime
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- student
Age:
- a teen
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- druggie/wino disease
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Body type
- (woman) ample bosom & buttocks
How much in movie?
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- government investigator
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Hair color
- red
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- missing body parts/abilities
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- all mixed up
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- actual description of sex
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
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