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    Animal House (1978)

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    Rude and crude, rough and ready, sometimes revolting but essentially innocent in a raunchy undergraduate kind of way – This was the original frat house comedy.

    Animal House was a riot of raunchy silliness set in a small college in 1962, with the film following the bawdy style of the famed college humour magazine, National Lampoon.

    animalhouse_082Incoming freshmen Larry “Pinto” Kroger (Tom Hulce) and Kent “Flounder” Dorfman (Stephen Furst) find themselves rejected by the pretentious Omega fraternity, and instead pledge to Delta House.

    The Deltas are a motley fraternity of rejects including Otter (Tim Matheson), Hoover (James Widdoes), D-Day (Bruce McGill), Boon (Peter Riegert), and pledge master John “Bluto” Blutarsky (John Belushi).

    animalhouse_730Dean Wormer (John Vernon) decides that this is the year he’s going to get the Deltas expelled and their chapter decertified so places the fraternity on “double secret probation” and, with help from Omega president Greg Marmalard (James Daughton) and hard-nosed member Doug Neidermeyer (Mark Metcalf), starts looking for any pretext on which to bring the members of the Delta fraternity up on charges.

    The film told no discernible story but concentrated on the behaviour of the repulsive Delta House frat brothers as they battled the suave and elite Omega House and the Dean of Faber College.

    The anarchic and exuberant screenplay was by Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney and Chris Miller, and the cast under John Landis’ uninhibited direction included Kevin Bacon, Thomas Hulce, Stephen Furst, Mary Louise Weller, Martha Smith, Karen Allen and Donald Sutherland as a hip, pot-smoking English professor.

    Time was tight for location shooting as the University of Oregon rationed the crew to one month for the entire shoot.

    John “Bluto” Blutarsky
    John Belushi
    Eric “Otter” Stratton
    Tim Matheson
    Dean Vernon Wormer
    John Vernon
    Marion Wormer
    Verna Bloom
    Larry “Pinto” Kroger
    Tom Hulce
    Mayor Carmine DePasto
    Cesare Danova
    Donald “Boon” Schoenstein
    Peter Riegert
    Kent “Flounder” Dorfman
    Stephen Furst
    Katy
    Karen Allen
    Professor Dave Jennings
    Donald Sutherland
    Daniel “D-Day” Simpson
    Bruce McGill
    Mandy Pepperidge
    Mary Louise Weller
    Gregg Marmalard
    James Daughton
    Chip Diller
    Kevin Bacon
    Clorette DePasto
    Sarah Holcomb

    Director
    John Landis

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