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Animal House (1978) 7.5
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7.5/10 from 64,968 users
Metascore: 82/100
Reviews: 237 user | 79 critic | 7 from Metacritic.com At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him. Director:John Landis |
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Cast
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| Tom Hulce | ... |
Larry Kroger
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| Stephen Furst | ... | ||
| Mark Metcalf | ... | ||
| Mary Louise Weller | ... | ||
| Martha Smith | ... | ||
| James Daughton | ... | ||
| Kevin Bacon | ... | ||
| John Belushi | ... | ||
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Douglas Kenney | ... | |
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Chris Miller | ... |
Hardbar
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Bruce Bonnheim | ... | |
| Karen Allen | ... | ||
| James Widdoes | ... | ||
| Tim Matheson | ... | ||
| Peter Riegert | ... | ||
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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. The dean's plan comes into play just before the homecoming parade to end all parades for all time. Written by John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
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Relive the best 7 years of your college education. See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USARelease Date:
28 July 1978 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
National Lampoon's Animal House See more »Box Office
Budget:
$3,000,000 (estimated)Gross:
$141,600,000 (USA)Company Credits
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Otter: He can't do that to our pledges!
Boon: Only we can do that to our pledges.
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(uncredited)
From A Summer Place
Written by Max Steiner
Performed by Percy Faith and His Orchestra
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Did You Know?
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John Belushi's wife, Judy Jacklin (now Judith Belushi-Pisano), is an uncredited extra in several toga party scenes. See more »Goofs
When Niedermeyer closes the door on Flounder at the Omega house they show a close up of him with the stairway in the background. Two red dressed girls are coming down the stairs. A second later the stairway is empty and then the girls start down the stairs again. See more »Quotes
Boon: [Niedermyer is abusing Flounder in ROTC] Vicious mother, isn't he?Otter: He can't do that to our pledges!
Boon: Only we can do that to our pledges.
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Crazy Credits
Four of the listings in the cast are "mean dude," "meaner dude," "meanest dude," and "gigantic dude". See more »Soundtracks
"Theme"(uncredited)
From A Summer Place
Written by Max Steiner
Performed by Percy Faith and His Orchestra
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Every successful movie has its myriad clones and imitators, but none of them ever come close to what made the original so good.
That's certainly true of "Animal House".
The laughs are all solid, especially when the main focus is in toppling the stoic pillars of decency and normality with a battle cry of "food fight!".
Pledges Pinto (Hulce) and Flounder (Furst) are good soldiers, making us laugh with their desire to fit in at first then, finally, to succumb to the madness and pillage and destroy with the other Deltas, led by Bluto (Belushi), who waylays all in his path.
No subsequent attempt to cash in on the "Animal House" success has ever made good in toppling the once and future king of the mountain. Who has ever come close to creating a creature as lovably destructive as Bluto Blutarsky? What other college movie's dean ever made Dean Wormer seem like an easygoing, laid-back guy? What college movie scene comes close to the introduction of the Deltas? The toga party? The horse in the Dean's office? The road trip? The final parade? The....
Well, space is limited but you get the idea.
Ten stars, and a crushed-beer-can-on-the-forehead salute to all involved with the subversive garbage that is "Animal House".
More power to you.
And remember, knowledge is good.