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National Lampoon's Animal House is a 1978 American comedy film directed by John Landis. The screenplay was written by Harold Ramis and Douglas C. Kenney, with Ivan Reitman serving as producer. The cast includes John Belushi, Tim Matheson, John Vernon, and Verna Bloom. Charles Correll handled cinematography, while George Folsey Jr. edited the film. Elmer Bernstein composed the score. The movie was produced by Universal Pictures, Oregon Film Factory, and Stage III Productions.
Filming took place in Eugene, Cottage Grove, and at the University of Oregon. The story is set on a campus. The film has a runtime of 109 minutes and is rated R. It was distributed by Universal Pictures and Netflix in video on demand format. The production cost was between 2,700,000 and 3,000,000, while box office revenue reached approximately 141 million. The film is associated with the New Hollywood movement. It has received an IMDb rating of 7.4 and a Metascore of 79.
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7.0At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.
Cast
- John Belushi as John 'Bluto' Blutarski
- Karen Allen as Katy
- Tom Hulce as Larry 'Pinto' Kroger
- Stephen Furst as Kent 'Flounder' Dorfman
- Mark Metcalf as Doug Neidermeyer
- Mary Louise Weller as Mandy Pepperidge
Themes
- college
- fraternity
- dean
- fraternity house
- national lampoon's
- probation
- 1960s
- college freshman
- anarchic comedy
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Ratings
IMDb
7.4/10
135,600 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
91%
Metacritic
79/100
- Year
- 1978
- Runtime
- 109 min
- Genres
- Comedy
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 2 wins & 1 nomination total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- John Landis
- Written by
- Harold Ramis Douglas Kenney Chris Miller
- Produced by
- Matty Simmons Ivan Reitman
- Starring
- John Belushi Tim Matheson John Vernon Verna Bloom Thomas Hulce Donald Sutherland
- Cinematography
- Charles Correll
- Edited by
- George Folsey Jr.
- Music by
- Elmer Bernstein
- Production company
- Universal Pictures
- Distributed by
- Universal Pictures
- Release date
- July 28, 1978 ( 1978-07-28 )
- Running time
- 109 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $3 million
- Box office
- $141.6 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Part of
- National Film Registry
- Genre
- comedy film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Movement
- New Hollywood
- Director
- John Landis
- Screenwriter
- Harold Ramis
- Cast member
- James Widdoes
- Composer
- Elmer Bernstein
- Production company
- Universal Pictures
- Cinematographer
- Charles Correll
- Filming location
- Cottage Grove
- Duration
- 109
- FilmAffinity ID
- 957786
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.universalstudiosentertainment.com/animal-house
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- Commons category
- Animal House
- publication date
- 1978-07-28
- film editor
- George Folsey Jr.
- title
- National Lampoon's Animal House
- distributed by
- Netflix
- box office
- 141607219
- capital cost
- 3000000
- set in environment
- campus
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 79/100
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Encyclopedic overview
National Lampoon's Animal House is a 1978 American comedy film directed by John Landis and written by Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney and Chris Miller. It stars John Belushi, Tim Matheson, John Vernon, Verna Bloom, Thomas Hulce and Donald Sutherland. The film is about a trouble-making fraternity whose members challenge the authority of Dean Vernon Wormer of the fictional Faber College.
Produced by Matty Simmons of National Lampoon and Ivan Reitman for Universal Pictures, it was inspired by stories written by Miller and published in National Lampoon, which were based on Ramis's experience in the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity at Washington University in St. Louis, Miller's Alpha Delta Phi experiences at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire and producer Reitman's at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Animal House” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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