National Lampoon's Animal house / Universal ; a Matty Simmons/Ivan Reitman production ; written by Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney & Chris Miller ; produced by Ivan Reitman & Matty Simmons ; directed by John Landis.
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FilmPublisher number: 21550 | Universal21550C | UniversalLanguage: English, French, Spanish Original language: English Publication details: Universal City, CA : Universal, [2003]Edition: Double secret probation edDescription: 1 videodisc (approximately 109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 0783263562
- 9780783263564
- Animal house
- Animal house (Motion picture)
- Director of photography, Charles Correll ; art director, John J. Lloyd ; editor, George Folsey, Jr. ; original music, Elmer Bernstein ; costume designer, Deborah Nadoolman ; special effects, Henry Millar.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Director John Landis put himself on the map with this low-budget, fabulously successful comedy, which made a then-astounding 62 million dollars and started a slew of careers for its cast in the process. National Lampoon's Animal House is set in 1962 on the campus of Faber College in Faber, PA. The first glimpse we get of the campus is the statue of its founder Emil Faber, on the base of which is inscribed the motto, "Knowledge Is Good." Incoming 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 and maladjusted undergraduates (some approaching their late twenties) whose main goal -- seemingly accomplished in part by their mere presence on campus -- is disrupting the staid, peaceful, rigidly orthodox, and totally hypocritical social order of the school, as represented by the Omegas and the college's dean, Vernon Wormer (John Vernon). Dean Wormer decides that this is the year he's going to get the Deltas expelled and their chapter decertified; he 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 Deltas, oblivious to the danger they're in, are having a great time, steeped in irreverence, mild debauchery, and occasional drunkenness, led by seniors Otter (Tim Matheson), Hoover (James Widdoes), D-Day (Bruce McGill), Boon (Peter Riegert), and pledge master John "Bluto" Blutarsky (John Belushi). They're given enough rope to hang themselves, but even then manage to get into comical misadventures on a road trip (where they arrange an assignation with a group of young ladies from Emily Dickinson University). Finally, they are thrown out of school, and, as a result, stripped of their student deferments (and, thus, eligible for the draft). They decide to commit one last, utterly senseless (and screamingly funny) slapstick act of rebellion, making a shambles of the university's annual homecoming parade, and, in the process, getting revenge on the dean, the Omegas, and everyone else who has ever gone against them. ~ Bruce Eder, Rovi
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1978.
Special features: exclusive feature "Where are they now?": a Delta Alumni update: developed and directed by legendary filmmaker John Landis and producer Matty Simmons; "Did you know that?": Universal animated anecdotes; "The yearbook: an 'Animal house' reunion."
Special features: Widescreen format -- Digitally remastered -- Music video "Shout" remade by Hit Music Group MxPx -- Where are they now? A Delta alumni update featuring the original cast -- Did you know that? Universal animated anecdotes about the original production -- The yearbook: An Animal House reunion -- Language: English 5.1 surround ; English 2.0 mono -- Subtitles: English, Spanish and French.
Director of photography, Charles Correll ; art director, John J. Lloyd ; editor, George Folsey, Jr. ; original music, Elmer Bernstein ; costume designer, Deborah Nadoolman ; special effects, Henry Millar.
John Belushi, Tim Matheson, John Vernon, Verna Bloom, Thomas Hulce, Cesare Danova, Peter Riegert, Mary Louise Weller, Stephen Furst, James Daughton, Bruce McGill, Karen Allen, Kevin Bacon, Martha Smith, Donald Sutherland.
Faber College has one frat house so disreputable it will take anyone. The campus's only other frat house is full of white, anglo-saxon, rich young men that no one can stand except Dean Wormer. The dean enlists the help of their fraternity to get the boys of Delta House off campus. The dean's plan comes into play just before the homecoming parade.
MPAA rating: R.
DVD, NTSC, region 1 encoding, 5.1 Dolby digital; widescreen (1.85:1).
Dialogue in English with optional French or Spanish subtitles; captioned in English for the hearing impaired.