Dirty Work

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Dirty Work

PG-13

Released Jun 12, 1998

1h 21m

Comedy

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Friends Sam (Artie Lange) and Mitch (Norm Macdonald) need $50,000 to pay for Sam's dad's heart surgery. When they're fired for getting revenge on their abusive theater-owner boss, they have a great money-making idea: a revenge-for-hire business. The friends are soon successful, but not all their clients are good customers. When real estate developer Travis Cole (Christopher McDonald) tricks them into vandalizing a building that isn't his, Sam and Mitch concoct their best revenge plan yet.

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Joe Leydon

Variety

The outrageousness isn't consistently sustained, and the pic tends to peter out somewhere around the two thirds mark.

Jun 2, 2008

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Globe and Mail

Tasteless? Oh, yeah.

Rated: 2/4

Apr 12, 2002

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David Kronke

Los Angeles Times

A tone-deaf, scattershot and dispiritingly cheesy affair with more groans than laughs.

Feb 14, 2001

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Maitland McDonagh

TV Guide

Occasionally funny, but all too often driven by the juvenile conviction that anything even remotely connected with homosexuality is riotously funny...

Rated: 2/4

Jun 2, 2008

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Phil Villarreal

Arizona Daily Star

A ribald flood of comic bliss.

Rated: 4/4

Apr 14, 2006

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Rated: 2/5

Jul 28, 2005

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Scott B

I'd love to see what's on the cutting room floor!

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

12/31/24

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Perez R

Love Norm he is today and always the greatest

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/25/24

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Alec B

Remains a totally bizarre, often quite funny, 90s comedy. Goes without saying it was unfairly maligned but I do wish we had gotten to see the R rated cut.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/20/24

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Augustine J

Dirty Work is alright, but it's not for everyone. It feels like an Adam Sandler movie that Norm McDonald was plopped into. He does a good job, and by good job, I mean he literally just acts like Norm McDonald. If you like Norm McDonald, go ahead and watch this movie, you'll enjoy it.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/01/24

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M R

How is this Norm McDonald's only film? It is very funny. I think Bob Saget directed it though and he has a very funny cameo in the film alongside Chris Farley. This movie is pretty juvenile but it will make you laugh. Rating: 7.5/10

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

11/09/23

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Miles M

It is exactly what you would expect from a movie written and starring Norm Mcdonald and directed by Bob Saget. It's stupid, but the jokes are funny both sly and over the top. Another film that could never be made today.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

09/21/23

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Synopsis

Friends Sam (Artie Lange) and Mitch (Norm Macdonald) need $50,000 to pay for Sam's dad's heart surgery. When they're fired for getting revenge on their abusive theater-owner boss, they have a great money-making idea: a revenge-for-hire business. The friends are soon successful, but not all their clients are good customers. When real estate developer Travis Cole (Christopher McDonald) tricks them into vandalizing a building that isn't his, Sam and Mitch concoct their best revenge plan yet.

Director: Bob Saget
Producer: Robert Simonds, Brad Grey, Ray Reo
Screenwriter: Frank Sebastiano, Norm Macdonald, Fred Wolf
Production Co: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Robert Simonds Productions
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 12, 1998, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 19, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $10.0M
Runtime: 1h 21m
Sound Mix: Surround

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