Van Wilder: Party Liaison (2002)
"Van Wilder" (original title)

The most popular kid on campus meets a beautiful journalist who makes him realize that maybe he's afraid to graduate.

Director:

Walt Becker

Writers:

Brent Goldberg, David Wagner

Stars:

Ryan Reynolds, Tara Reid, Tim Matheson

2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Ryan Reynolds	...	Van Wilder
Tara Reid	...	Gwen Pearson
Tim Matheson	...	Vance Wilder Sr.
Kal Penn	...	Taj Mahal Badalandabad
Teck Holmes	...	Hutch
Daniel Cosgrove	...	Richard Bagg
Deon Richmond	...	Mini Cochran
Alex Burns	...	Gordon
Emily Rutherfurd	...	Jeannie
Paul Gleason	...	Professor McDoogle
Erik Estrada	...	Himself
Curtis Armstrong	...	Campus Cop
Jason Winer	...	Panos Patakos
Chris Owen	...	Suicidal Freshman
Simon Helberg	...	Vernon

Storyline

Van Wilder is a guy who has been at his college for seven years. He spends most of his time throwing parties and "fund raisers". When his father decides that it's time for tough love, he doesn't pay his tuition. So Van becomes a professional party thrower. At the same time, Gwen who writes for the college paper, is tasked with doing a story on him, but Van is too busy partying to do that. So she writes it using info from people who talk about him and writes an unflattering piece, which doesn't make him happy. He then dares her to see if she can get the true story but is more interested in trying to score with her, which is not easy because she has a boyfriend, who is a snob, and who is not too happy with the amount time she is spending with him. So he tries to get rid of him.

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Plot Keywords:

college | party | love | reporter | golf cart | 

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Taglines:

The Tradition Continues

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong sexual content, gross humor, language and some drug content

Details

Country:

Germany USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

5 April 2002 (USA)

Also Known As:

National Lampoon's Van Wilder

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$6,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$238,882 (Brazil) (8 August 2003)

Gross:

$650,967 (Brazil) (5 September 2003)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Myriad Pictures, In-Motion AG Movie & TV Productions, World Media Fonds V (WMF V)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

92 min 94 min (unrated)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Charlie Talbert:  the interviewee who plays with his stomach. He is seen wearing a T-shirt with thee words "Who's your daddy?" - in 2004 he plays the role of Adam in a movie with the same name, _Who's Your Daddy? (2004)_.

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Goofs

When Naomi is taking off her shirt on the bed with Taj, you hear audio of her talking but her mouth is closed.

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Quotes

Richard: How bad do you want to be a Delta? Would you stand on broken glass? Let the shards into your Archilles tendon, causing acute achondroplasia, which could lead to non-congenital dwarfism as you got older?

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Crazy Credits

A couple of deleted scenes play on during the end credits including makeout scene outtakes and others.

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Connections

References Happy Gilmore (1996)

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Soundtracks

"We Got"
Written by B. Chijoke, P. Mah, D. Betmead, B. Ellis, Intellect aka Red Cloud
Performed by The Nextmen
Courtesy of Sugarool
Under License from 75 Ark Entertainment

User Reviews

One hilarious movie

This was one heck of an hilarious movie. I can watch it over and over. Reynolds did a spectacular job in the movie, but I must say that without the character Taj the movie wouldn't have been as funny.

This is more of a guy comedy type movie but my gf loved it also.

The donuts scene I must say was a little gross but still the movie was amazing. Laughed from start to finish..... This is the kind of guy everyone would like to be or know in College.

I don't think they could of taken anyone else then Reynolds to do this role maybe I m just saying that because he is one of my favorite actors but he did do a great job. 9/10