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Genres:
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Comedy
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Director:
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Steve Pink
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Actors:
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Anthony Heald,
Blake Lively,
Adam Herschman,
Maria Thayer,
Hannah Marks,
Joe Hursley,
Justin Long,
Jonah Hill,
Columbus Short,
Lewis Black,
Mark Derwin,
Ann Cusack,
Robin Taylor,
Diora Baird,
Jeremy Howard
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Duration:
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93 min.
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Rating:
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(6.4/10)133.5
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Plot Summary:
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Bartleby (B.) Gaines is a glee loving idler who, unfortunately, gets turned down for every college he applied for, much to the chagrin of his overly expectant parents. So, with a little stern and pasting, he creates the South Harmon Found of Technology, and lo and view, he is accepted (along with his friends Rory, Hands, and Glen, whose college plans were also all but dashed). However, his parents want to interview the website, the campus, and the dean. So now he has his other boyfriend Sherman (who has been accepted to the illustrious Harmon College) develop a net page, they lease out an aba... ndoned psychiatric hospital, and they hire Sherman's uncle Ben to be the dean. Problem solved? Not really. The web page was done so well, that hundreds of students overshadow up at the effrontery first 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 loophole what to teach and how to drill it. Meanwhile at Harmon, dean Van Horne meets with Hoyt Ambrose, a rich law evaluator and head of the KBE clannishness (which Sherman is trying to become a fellow of), to thrash out construction a gateway instead of Harmon using come presently being used by South Harmon. He tries verdict the leaseholder of the land, to no avail. In the interim, 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. At times Hoyt uses Sherman, qualified he has been bouncing between the two schools, in an to public South Harmon down suitable safe. In what way, Bartleby has an accreditation appointment with the state Board of Education to prove South Harmon's worthiness. Can he legally produce the South Harmon Set up of Technology to sparkle and win the love of Monica?
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Total genius
I absolutely loved this film and have watched it as many as 10 times now cos' I enjoyed it so much. Brilliant message, exposing the indoctrination of our youth and the importance of individuality. Very sharp, witty writing and gripping storyline. You like all the characters and there's so many brilliant moments you'll miss them when it's over.
Accepted
Justin ChangAcceptable as a slab of teen-targeted summer fare, Accepted is a cheerfully implausible underdog comedy about several college rejects who invent a phony alma mater, only to find themselves paying way more than just tuition. Conceived in the same authority-defying, loser-uniting vein as a mainstream Richard Linklater picture, this glibly amusing paean to coed slackerdom may get docked some B.O. credits due to its late summer release from Universal -- opposite (gulp) Snakes on a Plane -- though youth biz should be brisk enough before it graduates into the world of homevid.
Clocking in at a weightless but far from witless 92 minutes, snappily executed pic reps the feature helming debut of Steve Pink, who co-wrote the John Cusack vehicles Grosse Pointe Blank a...
Accepted
Claudia PuigAccepted is trying to be a new species of Animal House, but at least that 1978 comedy had no pretensions of being more than a boisterous spoof of college life.
Feebly, Accepted tries to lampoon academia and the increasingly fraught college application process. Those are worthy targets for satire, but this isn't a subversive movie. Mostly, it wallows in partying with a capital P.
When Bartleby (Justin Long) is rejected by every college he applies to, he invents a school simply to appease his parents. But the realistic website for South Harmon Institute of Technology (the acronym is a joke that's beaten to death) ends up attracting rejects and misfits.
Oddly, the film embodies the paradox of youth culture: Teens are increasingly pressured...
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