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20 July 1984 (USA)
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It's time for the odd to get even more
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At a big campus, a group of bullied outcasts and misfits resolve to fight back for their peace and self respect. full summary | full synopsis
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The only worthy successor to Animal House – this is a oasis in a desert of rubbish frat movies
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Robert Carradine | ... | Louis Skolnick |
 | Anthony Edwards | ... | Gilbert Lowell |
 | Timothy Busfield | ... | Arnold Poindexter |
| Andrew Cassese | ... | Harold Wormser |
 | Curtis Armstrong | ... | Dudley 'Booger' Dawson |
| Larry B. Scott | ... | Lamar Latrell |
 | Brian Tochi | ... | Toshiro Takashi |
| Julia Montgomery | ... | Betty Childs (as Julie Montgomery) |
| Michelle Meyrink | ... | Judy |
| Ted McGinley | ... | Stan Gable |
| Matt Salinger | ... | Danny Burke |
| Donald Gibb | ... | Fred "The Ogre" Palowakski, Alpha Beta |
 | James Cromwell | ... | Mr. Skolnick (as Jamie Cromwell) |
| David Wohl | ... | Dean Ulich |
 | John Goodman | ... | Coach Harris |
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90 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Canada:AA (Ontario) |
Canada:PA (Manitoba) |
Canada:R (Nova Scotia) |
Iceland:L |
UK:15 (video re-rating) (2004) |
Canada:14A (Ontario - 2006) |
Australia:M |
Sweden:15 |
UK:18 (original rating) |
USA:R |
Canada:13+ (Quebec) |
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Donald Gibb shaved his beard to get the part of Ogre. The casting directors thought it made him look too old to be a college student.
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Continuity: Following the belching contest, the score board shows the Alpha Betas with 40 points, and the Lambdas with 25. In the background of the first javelin throw in the next scene, the score board shows the Alpha Betas with 25 points, and the Lambdas with 10 points.
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[Orge snatches a pie from a nerd customer]
Fred "The Ogre" Palowakski, Alpha Beta: Thanks wimp, get yourself one!
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Fred "The Ogre" Palowakski, Alpha Beta: Thanks wimp, get yourself one!
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Spoofed in "SuperNews!: Revenge of the Nerds (#1.32)" (2007)
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When Louis and Gilbert head to college they think it'll all be different from high school. However they are branded nerds and, when the jocks burn their own dorm down, the nerds find themselves kicked out and forced to sleep in the gym. When the nerds form their own chapter of the Tri-Lam fraternity. When they are bullied continually they decide to take matters into their own hands and fight back with the Jock's own games.
If there's one genre in the world that I hate it's the American college jock/nerd comedy. Whether it be the Animal House or Porky's or more modern ones – I hate almost all of them! So when I watched this I watched it with a certain fear. However the plot makes redresses the balance by having us support the nerds! It's well plotted so that it isn't just them becoming just like the jocks but instead learning their own lessons. Of course it is rude at times and does fall into being just silly and slapstick, but it's mixed nicely with some good sentiment and more gentle laugh.
The cast is great (in retrospect). Anthony Edwards is a real surprise in this post-ER time. Likewise Busfield is strange after 30-something and West Wing. Less so but Moonlighting's Curtis Armstrong is funny to see. And lets not forget James Cromwell (or Jamie as he was called then!), John Goodman and black 1970's star Bernie Casey! The nerds are all good – rising above their caricatures to start to bring out characters.
Overall this is a spin on the frat-comedy so it is a little juvenile and silly but the fact that it is spun towards the nerds makes it that little bit refreshing to watch compared to so many where our `heroes' are arrogant, annoying jock-types who sponge off mummy and daddy just to get drunk at college. Not a great movie but much better than anything else post-Animal House - I'm with the nerds!