Accepted (2006)

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:

Urban Legend | Based On Urban Legend | Evil Dean | Teen | Hearing

Awards:

3 nominations

US TV Schedule:

Sun. May 18	11:30 AM	HBO
Sun. May 18	7:15 PM	HBO
Wed. May 21	6:15 PM	HBO

Cast

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

MPAA:

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

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

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

Filming Locations:

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

Company:

Universal Pictures

Trivia:

Most of the movie was improvised, and a lot of the gags were pitched by the actors on the day of shooting.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Monica takes picture of the whole class you can see a flash, 'though her camera doesn't have flash.

Quotes:

Dean Van Horne: Rejection. That's what makes a college great. The exclusivity of any university is judged primarily by the amount of students it rejects.

Movie Connections:

References Batoru rowaiaru (2000)

Soundtrack:

U-Mass

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This is what movies should aspire to. Funny without being totally stupid, a little sexy without having every female in the cast show her boobs, biting without resorting to 'f-bombs' every line. I've been seeing Justin Long pop up in a lot of films over the past few years, I figured with the right role he could break out. (Mac commercials not withstanding.) This film just might put him on a fast track to the A list. The rest of the cast also did their jobs perfectly, this is an excellent little film with a nice message. (But you don't need to buy the message to have a good time.) Lewis Black is, as usual, hilarious, and Blake Lively is a fresh faced beauty.

Take a couple hours and see this film, they will not have been wasted.