Posts Tagged ‘college’

Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Barrymore, Drew | Zahn, Steve | Garcia, Adam | Murphy, Brittany | Woods, James | Bracco, Lorraine
Directors: Penny Marshall
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Seriocomic story based on the memoir by Beverly Donofrio, the movie follows a young woman who finds her life radically altered by an event from her teen years. Born in 1950, Beverly grew up bright and ambitious in a working-class neighborhood in Connecticut; her father was a tough but good-hearted cop who listened to his daughter’s problems, and her mother was a nervous woman eager to imagine the worst. From an early age, Beverly displays a keen intelligence and an interest in literature, and dreams of going to college in New York and becoming a writer. However, she also develops an early interest in boys, and at 15 finds herself madly in love with a boy from her high school. However, an attempt to get his attention leads to an embarassing incident at a party, and Ray, a sweet but thick-headed 18-year-old, steps forward to defend her. Beverly and Ray end up making out, and after one thing leads to another, Beverly discovers she’s pregnant. Telling Ray is only marginally less difficult than informing her parents, and at 16, Beverly is a wife and mother. Against the odds, Beverly is determined to still finish high school and go on to college, but that goal becomes more difficult with time, especially after Beverly’s marriage begins to fall apart. Ray tries to do the right thing but has trouble holding a job, and becomes addicted to heroin.

Home of Phobia (aka “Freshman Orientation”) (2004)

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Huntington, Sam | Sokoloff, Marla | Erwin, Mike | Matarazzo, Heather | Doubleday, Kaitlin | Johnson, Bryce | Tylor, Jud | Goodman, John | Dratch, Rachel | Sherman, Ashley | Barrett, Dicky | Bell, Jonathan Watts | Echeverria, Antonio | Martin, Murphy | McLachlan, Mark
Directors: Shiraki, Ryan
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A typical Midwestern 18 year-old freshman at a large state university eager to delve into the college party life, instead discovers that school is not the beer-driven, sexual fantasy of his imagination. Determined to do anything to obtain the girl of his dreams (a gorgeous but reluctant sorority girl), he decides to adopt a gay identity in order to insinuate himself in her life. This casual charade, however, quickly lands him in a morass of campus activism, gender warfare, fraternity hazes, sorority torture, “coming out” narratives, political martyrdom, and ultimately, a university-wide meltdown.

Accepted (2006)

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Long, Justin | Hill, Jonah | Herschman, Adam | Short, Columbus | Thayer, Maria | Black, Lewis | Lively, Blake | Derwin, Mark | Cusack, Ann | Marks, Hannah | Taylor, Robin | Baird, Diora | Hursley, Joe | Howard, Jeremy | Heald, Anthony
Directors: Pink, Steve
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Bartleby (B.) Gaines is a fun loving slacker who, unfortunately, gets turned down for every college he applied for, much to the charign of his overly expectant parents. So, with a little cutting and pasting, he creates the South Harmon Institute of Technology, and lo and behold, he is accepted (along with his friends Rory, Hands, and Glen, whose college plans were also all but dashed). However, his parents want to see the website, the campus, and the dean. So now he has his other friend Sherman (who has been accepted to the prestigious Harmon College) build a web page, they lease out an abandoned psychiatric hospital, and they hire Sherman’s uncle Ben (played to perfection by comedian Lewis Black) to be the dean. Problem solved? Not quite. The web page was done so well, that hundreds of students show up at the front door, all of which were turned down by other colleges. Faced with no choice, Bartleby decides to proceed with turning South Harmon into a real college, and sets about figuring out what to teach and how to teach it. Meanwhile at Harmon, dean Van Horne meets with Hoyt Ambrose, a rich law student and head of the KBE fraternity (which Sherman is trying to become a member of), to discuss building a gateway for Harmon using land presently being used by South Harmon. He tries finding the leaseholder of the land, to no avail. Meanwhile, his girlfriend, Monica, catches him cheating on her, and a big party at South Harmon lures a chunk of Harmon’s students away, including Monica into the arms of Bartleby. Now Hoyt uses Sherman, knowing he has been bouncing between the two schools, in an attempt to bring South Harmon down for good. However, Bartleby has an accreditation appointment with the state Board of Education to prove South Harmon’s worthiness. Can he legally bring the South Harmon Institute of Technology to life and win the love of Monica?

Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Cho, John | Penn, Kal | Corddry, Rob | Conley, Jack | Bart, Roger | Harris, Neil Patrick | Winter, Eric | Reep, Jon | Munoz, Mark | Adomian, James | Voltz, Todd | Christy, Richard | Herschman, Adam | Beals, Jackson | Talai, Amir
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Follows the cross-country adventures of the pot-smoking duo as they try to outrun authorities who suspect them of being terrorists when they try to sneak a bong on board their flight to Amsterdam.

Species III (2004)

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Dunne, Robin | Knepper, Robert | Pitoc, John Paul | Warren, Michael | Neame, Christopher | Stoffer, Joel | Ryan, James Leo | Frerichs, Reed | Wilson, Marc D. | Yang King, Matthew | Gillum, Christopher R. | Bacon, Billy | Williams, Jim Cody | Zecca, Mark | Ching, Sean
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While being transported in a military ambulance and supposed dead, Eve delivers an offspring and is killed by a half-breed. The baby girl is abducted by Dr. Abbot, and a couple of days later she grows up, reaching adulthood and becoming a gorgeous young woman called Sara. Dr. Abbot expects to develop a perfect DNA using Sara’s eggs and win the Nobel Prize, and invites the student Dean to be his assistant and share his research and future awards. But while Sara unsuccessfully chases a perfect mate for her to generate a perfect being, the flawed half-breeds leaded by Amelia try to reproduce with her to survive their species.

National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978)

Monday, July 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Belushi, John | Matheson, Tim | Vernon, John | Hulce, Tom | Danova, Cesare | Riegert, Peter | Furst, Stephen | Daughton, James | McGill, Bruce | Metcalf, Mark | Jessie, DeWayne | Widdoes, James | Bacon, Kevin | Sutherland, Donald | Kenney, Douglas
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Faber College has one frat house so disreputable it will take anyone. It has a second one full of white, anglo-saxon, rich young men who are so sanctimonious no one can stand them except Dean Wormer. The dean enlists the help of the second frat to get the boys of Delta House off campus. This film gives high-jinks and fooling around a bad name. P The dean’s plan comes into play just before the homecoming parade to end all parades for all time.

How High (2001)

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Jones, Jeffrey | Man, Method | Redman | Babatundé, Obba | Epps, Mike | Willard, Fred
Directors: Dylan, Jesse
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Two guys by the name of Silas and Jamal decided to one day smoke something magical, which eventually helps them to ace their college entrance exam. This eventually lands them in Harvard, where they’re surrounded by the world of Ivy Leaguers. Although their new lifestyle is much different from back home, they kept on having fun until their supernatural smoke runs out. Now, they are on their own and they have to rely on each other to survive.

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004)

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy
Countries: Canada | Germany | USA
Actors: Cho, John | Penn, Kal | Harris, Neil Patrick | Krumholtz, David | Thomas, Eddie Kaye | Meloni, Christopher | Reynolds, Ryan | Willard, Fred | Embry, Ethan | Tinkler, Robert | Braun, Steve | Bochart, Dan | Sheer, Mike | Thompson, Christopher | Tsarouchas, Angelo
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Two twenty-something stoner roommates — one a Korean American investment banker; the other an Indian American medical school candidate — go through a life changing journey, as they spend a night roaming the state of New Jersey in search of White Castle hamburgers.

Sydney White (2007)

Monday, June 9th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Bynes, Amanda | Paxton, Sara | Long, Matt | Carpenter, Jack | Howard, Jeremy | Hunt, Crystal | Hendershott, Adam | Strong, Danny | Levine, Samm | Mintz, Libby | Schneider, John | Pantoja, Arnie | Bonner, Donté | Clarke, Brian Patrick | Leech, Lauren
Directors: Nussbaum, Joe
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This modern retelling of the classic fairytale follows a beautiful college freshman as she pledges her late mother’s once dignified sorority. But after discovering that today’s sisterhood is not what it used to be, Sydney finds her new home away from home with seven outcasts. With the help of her socially challenged new friends, Sydney will take on the reigning campus queen to attempt to transform the school’s misguided social hierarchy.

Soul Survivors (2001)

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Angela Robinson | Sagemiller, Melissa | Bentley, Wes | Affleck, Casey | Dushku, Eliza | Featherstone, Angela | Wilson, Luke | Hamilton, Allen | Moreno, Ken | Paoli, Carl | Robertson, Barbara E. | Pickren, Richard | Kroslak, Candace | Kitley, Ryan | Snyder, Rick | Goldberg, Danny
Directors: Carpenter, Stephen
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College freshman Cassandra “Cassie” (Melissa Sagemiller) steps into a nightmare of otherworldly visitations after surviving a devastating car accident. Haunted by a grim reaper of a far different kind, her only hope is to cling to chance encounters with her lost love Sean (Casey Affleck) and the aid of a mysterious young priest named Father Jude (Luke Wilson). It is the spirit of Sean, her soul mate, who guides her to love, but it is her friends Matt (Wes Bentley), Annabel (Eliza Dushku) and Annabel’s morose friend Raven (Angela Featherstone) who try to draw her to the dark side.