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is wholly unconvincing

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you get the impression that writer and director burr steers knows the territory ... but his sense of humor has yet to lose the smug self-satisfaction usually associated with the better private schools .

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into one terrific story with lots of laughs

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sit through , enjoy on a certain level and then
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