Animal House (1978)

Director:

John Landis

Writers:

Harold Ramis (written by) &
Douglas Kenney (written by) ...

Release Date:

28 July 1978 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Tagline:

We got to do something...You know what we are gonna do ? Toga party !

Plot:

At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the Delta House Fraternity, but those roughhousers have other plans for him.

Plot Keywords:

Dean | Parade | College | Homecoming Parade | Fraternity

Awards:

2 wins & 1 nomination

Cast

Tom Hulce	...	Larry Kroger (as Thomas Hulce)
Stephen Furst	...	Kent Dorfman
Mark Metcalf	...	Doug Neidermeyer
Mary Louise Weller	...	Mandy Pepperidge
Martha Smith	...	Babs Jansen
James Daughton	...	Greg Marmalard
Kevin Bacon	...	Chip Diller
John Belushi	...	John Blutarsky
Douglas Kenney	...	Stork
Chris Miller	...	Hardbar (as Christian Miller)
Bruce Bonnheim	...	B.B.
Karen Allen	...	Katy
James Widdoes	...	Robert Hoover
Tim Matheson	...	Eric Stratton
Peter Riegert	...	Donald Schoenstein

Also Known As:

National Lampoon's Animal House (USA) (complete title)
Colegio de animales (Argentina) (Mexico) (original subtitled version) [es]
Ich glaub' mich tritt ein Pferd (Austria) (West Germany) [de]
Çilginlar okulu (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
American College (France) [fr]
Animal House (West Germany) [de]
Collège américain (Canada: French title) [fr]
Delta-jengi (Finland) [fi]
Deltagänget (Sweden) [sv]
Deltagjengen (Norway) [no]
Desmadre a la americana (Spain) [es]
Ena trello... trello thiriotrofeio (Greece) [el]
Im College sind die Affen los (West Germany) [de]
O Clube dos Cafajestes (Brazil) [pt]

Runtime:

109 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Italian

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Todd-AO)

Certification:

Chile:14 | Finland:K-16 (1979) (cut) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) (re-rating) (2003) | Canada:14A (Manitoba) (re-rating) (2003) | Canada:18 (Nova Scotia) (re-rating) (2003) | Canada:18+ (Quebec) (original rating) | Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) (original rating) | Canada:R (Nova Scotia) (original rating) | Finland:K-16 (1993) (uncut) | USA:R (Certificate #25253) | Argentina:X (original rating) | Argentina:13 (re-rating) | West Germany:18 | South Korea:18 | Australia:M | Iceland:L | Ireland:18 | Italy:VM14 | Netherlands:AL | New Zealand:R16 | Norway:16 | Singapore:NC-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:R | West Germany:12 (re-rating) | UK:AA (original rating)

Filming Locations:

729 East 11th Street, Eugene, Oregon, USA

Company:

Universal Pictures

Trivia:

The characters of Stork and Hardbar were created to give Doug Kenney and Chris Miller a reason to be on set, and had come from different portions of a deleted character named Mountain. Hardbar was named after a real frat brother of Miller's who masturbated excessively.

Goofs:

Continuity: In the parade scene the letter "A" on the SIGMA float is knocked off by a fire hydrant but it reappears in the following segment

Quotes:

Hoover: Hey are you guys coming down?
[Boon and Otter look at Hoover]
Hoover: There happen to be 50 people downstairs waiting to try and get into this fraternity. Otter, you are the rush chairman. I think you should be present at the rush party.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Stupids (1996)

Soundtrack:

Wonderful World

Sick, depraved, juvenile, disgusting, lewd, perverted......

Yep, it must be Animal House!

The classic frat comedy of all time. A simple story of college life for a bunch of delinquents who seek solace with a an endless supply of beer, toga parties and loads of young girls.

It doesn't matter that the Delta House (the home of said delinquents), continually fail to pass their exams, for them sex & booze is all what life is about.

The movie is a perfect vehicle for Saturday Night Live star, John Belushi, who is allowed to show off his considerable talent as the biggest sicko of the Delta bunch - check out his impression of a Zit!!

But he is well supported by Tom Hulce, and surprisingly Donald Sutherland as the hippy professor with wayout theories.

Able actor, John Vernon, plays the Principle of the college and often the butt of the Delta House: finding a horse in his office is a classic piece of farce!

All in all, the film hangs together very well with a good script and superb visual jokes. John Landis must have a wild college life himself when he made this.

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