Official Movie Website Theatrical Release 08/18/06 Home Video 11/14/06 MPAA Rating Rated PG-13 for language, sexual material and drug content Running Time 1 hour 32 minutes Genre Comedy Director Steve Pink Writer Mark Perez, Adam Cooper, Bill Collage Cast Justin Long, Jonah Hill, Blake Lively, Adam Herschman, Maria Thayer, Anthony Heald, Columbus Short, Lewis Black Studio Universal Picures |
ACCEPTED
SYNOPSIS
High schooler Bartleby Gaines ("B" to his friends) is
on his way to scoring a perfect eight out of eight
college rejection letters-which isn't going to go over
big with his parents. At least, he's not alone-several
of his posse of oddball friends are in the same,
college-less boat. What's a guy, facing down a
lifetime career as a convenience store clerk, going
to do?
Created his own college, of course. B calls in some
friendly favors-has a techie bud build a website,
convinces another friend's burnout uncle to pose
as the dean and organizes a clean-up/building party
at a local abandoned mental hospital-and South
Harmon Institute of Technology is born.
Just as B and his fellow South Harmon classmen
are settling into their charade, they realize they've
done their jobs too well as dozens of other college
rejects show up for classes at this off-the-radar
institute. Under the scornful eyes of the privileged
students and faculty from the neighboring college,
B and friends forge ahead with maintaining a
functioning (and fake) university. Their effort to
keep up the use quickly escalates into a battle
between the have-nots of South Hamon and the
have-snots of their "sister" school-higher learning
has never stopped so low.
High schooler Bartleby Gaines ("B" to his friends) is
on his way to scoring a perfect eight out of eight
college rejection letters-which isn't going to go over
big with his parents. At least, he's not alone-several
of his posse of oddball friends are in the same,
college-less boat. What's a guy, facing down a
lifetime career as a convenience store clerk, going
to do?
Created his own college, of course. B calls in some
friendly favors-has a techie bud build a website,
convinces another friend's burnout uncle to pose
as the dean and organizes a clean-up/building party
at a local abandoned mental hospital-and South
Harmon Institute of Technology is born.
Just as B and his fellow South Harmon classmen
are settling into their charade, they realize they've
done their jobs too well as dozens of other college
rejects show up for classes at this off-the-radar
institute. Under the scornful eyes of the privileged
students and faculty from the neighboring college,
B and friends forge ahead with maintaining a
functioning (and fake) university. Their effort to
keep up the use quickly escalates into a battle
between the have-nots of South Hamon and the
have-snots of their "sister" school-higher learning
has never stopped so low.
Accepted is produced by Tom Shadyac (Bruce Almighty) and Michael Bostick and is directed by Steve
Pink (writer of High Fidelity and Grosse Pointe Blank in his feature film directorial debut). It is written by
Mark Perez, Adam Cooper & Bill Collage. -- © Universal Pictures
Pink (writer of High Fidelity and Grosse Pointe Blank in his feature film directorial debut). It is written by
Mark Perez, Adam Cooper & Bill Collage. -- © Universal Pictures
BRENDA AND DAVID
What would any young graduating senior do when he is not ACCEPTED to a single college that he has
applied to? He makes up one! Bartleby Gaines (Justin Long) with the help of his friends, Sherman
Schader (Jonah Hill), Hands (Columbus Short) and Rory (Maria Thayer) lease an old psych ward and turn
it into a college campus. Bartleby has designed a website for the South Harmon Institute of Technology
or S.H.I.T that says "Acceptance is a Click Away". It works so well, a group of new students show up on
the first day of orientation with tuition checks in hand. They hire Sherman's Uncle Ben (Lewis Black), a
former shoe salesman, to act as the dean of the college that makes up its own curriculum like
swimming, drinking,skateboarding, anything one can think of . The dean of the real Harmon College
(Anthony Heald) wants this property for his college and threatens to close the school. The scene stealer
is Sherman, Bartleby's best friend. Accepted directed by Steve Pink delivers plenty of laughs and is
definitely worth the price of admission.
What would any young graduating senior do when he is not ACCEPTED to a single college that he has
applied to? He makes up one! Bartleby Gaines (Justin Long) with the help of his friends, Sherman
Schader (Jonah Hill), Hands (Columbus Short) and Rory (Maria Thayer) lease an old psych ward and turn
it into a college campus. Bartleby has designed a website for the South Harmon Institute of Technology
or S.H.I.T that says "Acceptance is a Click Away". It works so well, a group of new students show up on
the first day of orientation with tuition checks in hand. They hire Sherman's Uncle Ben (Lewis Black), a
former shoe salesman, to act as the dean of the college that makes up its own curriculum like
swimming, drinking,skateboarding, anything one can think of . The dean of the real Harmon College
(Anthony Heald) wants this property for his college and threatens to close the school. The scene stealer
is Sherman, Bartleby's best friend. Accepted directed by Steve Pink delivers plenty of laughs and is
definitely worth the price of admission.
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