Accepted (2006)

User Rating:

6.4/10   

Director:

Steve Pink

Writers (WGA):

Adam Cooper (screenplay) &
Bill Collage (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

18 August 2006 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

Reject rejection

Plot:

When a high school burnout discovers he's been rejected from every college he's applied to, he creates a fake university in order to fool his overzealous parents.

Plot Keywords:

College | Student | Dean | University | Education

Awards:

3 nominations

Cast

Justin Long	...	Bartleby Gaines
Jonah Hill	...	Sherman Schrader
Adam Herschman	...	Glen
Columbus Short	...	Hands Holloway
Maria Thayer	...	Rory Thayer
Lewis Black	...	Ben Lewis
Blake Lively	...	Monica
Mark Derwin	...	Jack Gaines
Ann Cusack	...	Diane Gaines
Hannah Marks	...	Lizzie Gaines
Robin Taylor	...	Abernathy Darwin Dunlap (as Robin Lord Taylor)
Diora Baird	...	Kiki
Joe Hursley	...	Maurice / The Ringers
Jeremy Howard	...	Freaky Student
Anthony Heald	...	Dean Richard Van Horne

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for language, sexual material and drug content.

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

SDDS | Dolby Digital | DTS

Certification:

Ireland:12A | Singapore:PG | Netherlands:MG6 | USA:PG-13 (certificate #42641) | Malaysia:U | Australia:M | Germany:o.Al. | South Korea:12 | Argentina:13 | Sweden:11

Filming Locations:

Chapman University - One University Drive, Orange, California, USA

Company:

Universal Pictures

Trivia:

The name used on the fake IDs being created at the beginning of the movie is Jason Wilson, one of the film’s Associate Producers.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Sherman is in the room with the pool table, he backs into the rack holding the pool sticks and knocks them down. In the next shot back to him, there are 2 sticks and the 9-ball rack back on the rack.

Quotes:

Sherman Schrader: It was your idea to put "acceptance is just one click away"
Bartleby Gaines: Yeah put it as "one click away" but you don't make it clickable!

Movie Connections:

References Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)

Soundtrack:

Holiday

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