Housebound Family Snow Laughing Matter

Newcastle Herald

Friday September 8, 2000

James Joyce

Review

Snow Day (G) Director: Chris Koch Stars: Chevy Chase, Chris Elliott. Rating: ?

EVER wondered what happened to John Schneider, who played Bo Duke on TV's Dukes of Hazzard?

Me neither.

Schneider pops up in this thin, bland comedy (from US pay-TV kids' channel Nickelodeon) about an eventful day in the 'burbs when a night of heavy snowfall shuts the school.

Chase plays a TV weatherman (Schneider is his top-rating rival) whose workaholic wife is trapped at home with their hyperactive toddler while their teenage son spends the day wooing a dream girl and their 10-year-old daughter wages a Home Alone-style war on nasty `snowplowman' Elliott (from There's Something About Mary).

? James Joyce Tower, Charlestown, Glendale, Maitland, Cessnock