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Release Date:
28 July 1978 (USA)
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Tagline:
We got to do something...You know what we are gonna do ? Toga party ! more
Plot:
At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the Delta House Fraternity, but those roughhousers have other plans for him. full summary | full synopsis
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Parade
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Homecoming Parade
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Fraternity
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Awards:
2 wins
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1 nomination
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NewsDesk:
(79 articles)
Movie Reviews: “Up In The Air”
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 5 December 2009, 6:45 PM, PST)
Celebrity Biography: Emma Stone
(From PopStar. 15 November 2009, 9:21 AM, PST)
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 5 December 2009, 6:45 PM, PST)
Celebrity Biography: Emma Stone
(From PopStar. 15 November 2009, 9:21 AM, PST)
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What started it all- and still the best
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Tom Hulce | ... | Larry Kroger (as Thomas Hulce) | |
| Stephen Furst | ... | Kent Dorfman | |
| Mark Metcalf | ... | Doug Neidermeyer | |
| Mary Louise Weller | ... | Mandy Pepperidge | |
| Martha Smith | ... | Babs Jansen | |
| James Daughton | ... | Greg Marmalard | |
| Kevin Bacon | ... | Chip Diller | |
| John Belushi | ... | John 'Bluto' Blutarsky | |
| Douglas Kenney | ... | Stork | |
| Chris Miller | ... | Hardbar (as Christian Miller) | |
| Bruce Bonnheim | ... | B.B. | |
| Karen Allen | ... | Katy | |
| James Widdoes | ... | Robert Hoover | |
| Tim Matheson | ... | Eric Stratton | |
| Peter Riegert | ... | Donald Schoenstein |
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Also Known As:
National Lampoon's Animal House (USA) (complete title)
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Runtime:
109 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Todd-AO)
Certification:
Chile:14 |
Finland:K-16 (1979) (cut) |
Canada:13+ (Quebec) (re-rating) (2003) |
Canada:14A (Manitoba) (re-rating) (2003) |
Canada:18 (Nova Scotia) (re-rating) (2003) |
Canada:18+ (Quebec) (original rating) |
Canada:AA (Ontario) |
Canada:PA (Manitoba) (original rating) |
Canada:R (Nova Scotia) (original rating) |
Finland:K-16 (1993) (uncut) |
USA:R (Certificate #25253) |
Argentina:X (original rating) |
Argentina:13 (re-rating) |
West Germany:18 |
South Korea:18 |
Australia:M |
Iceland:L |
Ireland:18 |
Italy:VM14 |
Netherlands:AL |
New Zealand:R16 |
Norway:16 |
Singapore:NC-16 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:15 |
USA:R |
West Germany:12 (re-rating) |
UK:AA (original rating)
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A scene featuring Otter driving a girl (played by location scout Katherine Wilson) to the Rainbow Motel on Old Mill Road is seen briefly in the original trailer but was deleted from the film.
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Anachronisms: The car that Flounder borrowed from his brother is a 1964 Lincoln Sedan whose body style was not introduced in 1962.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Starz Inside: In the Gutter (2008) (TV)
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Soundtrack:
Hey Paula
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What does John 'Bluto' Blutarsky yell during the Otis Day and the Knights song "Shout"?more
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This is the best college comedy ever made. Nothing has ever come close to comedic perfection, and never will again. The early bird director John Landis directs this film into greatness bringing stars John Belushi, Tim Matheson, Tom Hulce, Mark Metcalf and Donald Sutherland to the screen in brilliance. True, this film is just about a bunch of misfits defying authority in a campus of 1962, but that's what makes it so good, and original. Belushi, Metcalf, and others bring many of the laughs here, but it is mainly it's reputation that brings this film into hilarity. A landmark in cinema comedy. By the way, screenwriters Harold Ramis and Chris Miller originally were going to make this a film about Charles Manson called Laser Orgy Girls, so thank god Douglas Kenney came in and straightened this out to the right part.