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2006 Certificate 12
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What happens when you want to go to college but no school accepts you? If you're Bartleby Gaines (Justin Long), you invent a fictitious university and create your own destiny. ACCEPTED follows the Ferris Bueller-esque Bartleby as he and his assembled crew of college rejects dupe the world by building the South Harmon Institute .. Read more

Starring Ann Cusack, Mark Derwin, Justin Long, Maria Thayer
Director Steve Pink
Genres Comedy

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What happens when you want to go to college but no school accepts you? If you're Bartleby Gaines (Justin Long), you invent a fictitious university and create your own destiny. ACCEPTED follows the Ferris Bueller-esque Bartleby as he and his assembled crew of college rejects dupe the world by building the South Harmon Institute of Technology from scratch. There's his nerdy friend Sherman Schrader (Jonah Hill), who is actually enrolled in the well-established Harmon College across the way but who helps Bartleby with the logistics; the hyper-smart Rory (Maria Thayer), who put all her eggs into one basket and got rejected by her dream Ivy League school; Hands (Columbus Short), a football player who lost his scholarship when he blew out his knee; Glen (Adam Herschman), a former convenience store employee who is about as dumb as they come; and, finally, Uncle Ben (Lewis Black), a former academic who gets talked into become the makeshift school's dean when he gets fired from his latest job selling sneakers at the mall. What begins as an innocent ploy to make his parents happy quickly spirals out of control when Bartleby realises that several hundred kids have shown up for orientation. As he digs himself into a deeper and more irrevocable hole, something strange happens: Bartleby realises that he's actually onto something. Steve Pink's ACCEPTED is a light-hearted comedy that has its heart in the right place.

Starring Ann Cusack, Mark Derwin, Justin Long, Maria Thayer, Anthony Heald, Blake Lively, Lewis Black
Director Steve Pink
Studio UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK VIDEO RENTAL
Run time DVD: 1 hr 30 mins
Certificate Certificate 12
Genres Comedy
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: 12 Feb 2007
Production year: 2006
Format DVD
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  • 35 out of 44 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 1 star

    ...into the dire film category

    A kid doesn't get into college, so he decides to open up his own and ends up accepting all types of no-hopers. Although this film is some-what original in its storyline, its fails babdly when it comes to laughs and the acting. This is something that you might see on a weekday evening on MTV. Not good

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  • 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

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    This sounded alright, potentially great if well made. The reviews said it was terrible and it was quite obscure so I didn't notice it when it got released on DVD.

    Having finally seen it I have to say that it's great. It is middle of the road, and I can see how a lot of people don't like it, but it works for me. In the space of about three months I have seen it three times, which is a lot for me as I usually wait about a year before watching something again.

    Justin Long is funny and likeable, although it's probably fair to say that he's not destined to be one of the great titans of comedy. If you get his style of humour then you should find the film to be very amusing, with seven or eight laugh out loud moments. Hopefully he will get more starring roles as he is good.

    The rival jocks are a particularly non-threatening presence. Justin gets the girl from the jock far too easily. Maybe the makers were trying to skip some cliches of the sub-genre, but still, the cliche is there so they might as well have played it out in full.

    The DVD has no extras which is odd for a comedy as they usually have ten or so minutes of good deleted scenes and alternative dialogue. Sometimes the deleted material is better than what gets into the film so I do feel annoyed that there isn't any on this DVD.

    On a non-relevant side note it's interesting how "U-Mass" by The Pixies jumps out of the film soundtrack in a way none of the other songs do. Either it's just really well placed, or it's further proof that they are one of the greatest bands of all time.

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