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Accepted
Movie poster for Accepted
Directed bySteve Pink
Written byAdam Cooper
Bill Collage
Mark Perez
Produced byMichael Bostick
StarringJustin Long
Jonah Hill
Lewis Black
CinematographyMatthew F. Leonetti
Music byDavid Schommer
Distributed byUniversal
Release dates
August 18, 2006
Running time
92 minutes
CountryUSA
LanguageEnglish
Budget$23 million

Accepted is a 2006 comedy motion picture about a group of high school seniors who, after being rejected from all colleges to which they had applied, create their own college. Though it is a light comedy the film's undertone throughout is highly critical of the U.S. college system (and the college ranking system).

Synopsis

Bartleby Gaines (Justin Long) is an underachieving high-school student who uses his wits to get away with a lot of things. After being rejected by all eight universities that he applies to, he hatches a plot, along with his friends, to create his own fake college, the South Harmon Institute of Technology (S.H.I.T.), to make his parents believe that he was accepted.

Realizing that they will need a campus to continue the ruse, the group locates a local run-down mental hospital and proceed to acquire the lease and refurbish it. With everything remodeled, the broken down hospital now looks like a college. Despite being a fake college, they have a functional website which was inadvertently accepting applicants, and much to the dismay of Bartleby, the campus is soon brimming with new students.

With the tuition money from his students, Bartleby starts to pay for a cleaner facility, better dorm rooms, and a lot of entertainment systems, such as a half pipe for skateboard and a big pool. The students are told to do whatever they feel like doing and actually create their own class subjects. All the class subjects are written on a white board by students and classes such as "Do Nothing 101" and "The Art of Sleeping" make the cut. The entire student body just sits around and parties all day. One such party was the "S.H.I.T. Party", which was a huge party filled with dancing and music, and during this party the actual band, The Ringers, performed their song "Keepin' Your Head Up".

Word of this unauthorized campus soon makes its way to the Dean of the nearby (legitimate) Harmon College. Dean Van Horne appears with the state police and announces to all of the parents and students that the school is a scam. Bartleby is forced to tell the truth about South Harmon, and all the students are taken away by their parents. Disappointing his parents once again, Bartleby feels that all hope is lost. He rides his bike to the now roped-off campus and looks at the pile of mail sitting on the "school's" front stoop. One of the letters is a notice of an accreditation hearing from the Ohio Board of Accreditation; Bartelby's friend Schrader, who had originally been critical of the "school", had secretly applied to the state board on behalf of South Harmon.

During the hearing, at which Rory makes sure the entire South Harmon student body is in attendance, Bartleby makes a speech about following their own dreams, and not be restricted to what the school allows them to do. He claims schools like Harmon College are great but they limit the creativity of students, whereas at South Harmon, students could find their talents and set their own goals. The board agrees, and grants the South Harmon Institute of Technology a one year probation and supervision to further its "experimental programs". The film concludes with Bartleby being seen off by his family for a new semester and with Schrader on his way to teach "Advanced Skepticism 401", with "no time for chit-chat", exclaiming "Shalom!".

An epilogue scene consists of Van Horne walking to his BMW car and having it explode right before his very eyes, which begin welling with tears, at which point the scene shifts to a shocked Bartleby and his fellow "Learn to Blow Shit up with his Mind" South Harmon student Jeremy Howard as Freaky Student/Jaison Trumar saying to Bartleby, "See? Told ya."

Taglines

"Battle Royale"

Cast

Box office

  • On opening weekend it made an estimated $10,023,835 in the USA and Canada.
  • As of October 19, 2006, the movie has gained an estimated $36,323,505 in the USA and Canada.[1]

Soundtrack

Other songs not included on the soundtrack:

  • "Close to Me" by The Cure plays in Bartleby Gaines room whenever the disco ball comes down
  • "Holiday" by Green Day. There has been some confusion over the fact that Weezer and Green Day each have a song by the title "Holiday" in the movie, but only the Weezer song is on the official soundtrack.
  • "Everything is Alright" by Motion City Soundtrack plays during the DVD commercial.
  • "Blitzkrieg Bop" is played at a party held at South Harmon, and Bartleby sings the majority of it on stage. The DVD also featured a music video of the song featuring the casts and crew.

Video and DVD release

The movie was released on VHS and DVD on November 14, 2006, in both Widescreen and Fullscreen.

The DVD includes: "Adam's 'Accepted' Chronicles"; "Reject Rejection: The Making Of 'Accepted'"; Self-Guided Campus Tour; "Hangin' On The Half Pipe" Music Video; "Keepin' Your Head Up" - The Ringers Music Video; Feature Commentary with Director Steve Pink, Justin Long, Lewis Black, Jonah Hill and Adam Herschman, Audio Commentary, Deleted Scenes, Featurette, Gag Reel, Music Videos

and the HD-DVD:

Side A - High Definition: All Standard Definition Features plus - Picture in Picture Commentary with Director Steve Pink, Justin Long, Lewis Black, Jonah Hill and Adam Herschman; Production Photographs
Side B - Standard Definition: "Adam's 'Accepted' Chronicles"; "Reject Rejection: The Making Of 'Accepted'"; Self-Guided Campus Tour; "Hangin' On The Half Pipe" Music Video; "Keepin' Your Head Up" - The Ringers Music Video; Feature Commentary with Director Steve Pink, Justin Long, Lewis Black, Jonah Hill and Adam Herschman


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