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Accepted
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Run Time: 93 min
MPAA Rating: PG13
Released: 2006
Directors: Steve Pink
Genre/Type: Comedy
Teen Movie
Producers: Tom Shadyac
Michael Bostick
Plot Synopsis by Jason Buchanan
When the weight of rejection begins to set in after being denied entry to every college he has applied to, a high school burnout attempts to placate his mom and dad and win the heart of his dream girl by scheming with his friends to create a fake university in a hilarious comedy of artificial education directed by Steve Pink and starring Justin Long. Bartleby "B" Gaines (Long) is a high school senior whose street smarts just never seemed to translate into the classroom, and whose bad luck in love has left him pining for the unattainable Monica (Blake Lively). When Bartleby and his rebellious crew of outcasts find the frequent college rejection letters they have all been receiving bringing endless grief from their disappointed parents, they soon band together to create the fictional South Harmon Institute of Technology. After creating a believable façade in an abandoned psychiatric hospital, employing the talents of a close friend's brilliantly subversive uncle (Lewis Black) to pose as the dean, and creating a phony website in order to sell the school to their parents, Bartleby and friends soon realize that all of their hard work has paid off in ways than they never imagined. With a variety of college rejects attempting to enroll in classes at the ersatz university and the skepticism of some privileged students from a nearby college drawing unwanted attention to the South Harmon Institute of Technology, Bartleby and friends find their ruse becoming ever more difficult to maintain.

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Cast

Actors Character Born
Justin Long Bartleby "B" Gaines Jun 2, 1978
Jonah Hill Sherman Schrader Dec 20, 1983
Adam Herschman Glen
Columbus Short Hands
Maria Thayer Rory
Lewis Black Uncle Ben Aug 30, 1948 in Washington, D.C.
Blake Lively Monica
Mark Derwin Jack Gaines
Ann Cusack Diane Gaines May 22, 1961 in Brooklyn, NY
Hannah Marks Lizzie Gaines
Robin Lord Taylor Abemath (A.D.D.)
Diora Baird Kiki
Joe Hursley Maurice
Jeremy Howard Freaky Student
Anthony Heald Dean Van Horne Aug 25, 1944 in New Rochelle, NY
Travis Van Winkle Hoyt Ambrose
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Review by Michael Buening
For the first 30 minutes or so, when the premise is established, Accepted is a stupid but funny throwaway teen/college comedy. The cast is spirited and the writing by Adam Cooper, Bill Collage, and Mark Perez and direction by Steve Pink is fast paced and off-center enough to make the material feel fresh. But after Bartleby Gaines (Justin Long) and his loser friends set up fake South Harmon Institute of Technology (because they fail to make the college of their choice) and unwittingly enroll a couple hundred other kids in the process, the energy suddenly deflates and the story treads water with umpteen ill-conceived party montages until the closing, when Gaines must fight for the school's accreditation against the evil dean and ruling frat of nearby Harmon College. Besides a lack of notable story developments, Accepted has a hard time figuring out whether it wants to be an irreverent skewering of overpriced, useless higher education (represented by Lewis Black as South Harmon's ranting dean) or an earnest defense of its outsider heroes against the preppy conformist institutions they are pressured into by their parents. The "if it feels good do it" ethos of South Harmon is supposed to represent the unleashed desires of real college kids, but with no visible sex, drug use, tepid drinking, and the alleged crazy awesomeness of a half-pipe on campus, it's tamer than most college campuses. The movie skirts, but seems too corporately tame to make much of, its defining subtext: that after the pressure in high school to get into college, what kids really want to do for four years is get wasted and sit on their butts. Isn't the South Harmon experience what most people already pay for and get?
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