Accepted

Plot synopsis:
Bartleby Gaines (Justin Long) is a persuasive senior from William McKinley High School in Wickliffe, Ohio, who, among other pranks, creates fake IDs. His gifts do not extend to grades, however, and he receives rejection letters from all of the colleges to which he applies, including those with high acceptance rates. In an attempt to gain approval from his strict father (Mark Derwin), Bartleby creates a fake college, the South Harmon Institute of Technology (S.H.I.T.). His best friend, Sherman Schrader III (Jonah Hill), who has been accepted into his father's (Jim O'Heir) prestigious alma mater, Harmon College, aids Bartleby and fellow reject Rory Thayer (Maria Thayer), who only applied to Yale University and was rejected due to legacy preferences; "Hands" Holloway (Columbus Short), who lost his athletic scholarship after an injury; and Glen (Adam Herschman), who failed his SAT exam due to vacuity. To make the "college" seem legitimate, Bartleby convinces Sherman to create a functional website for the school.
When his father insists on meeting the dean, Bartleby hires Sherman's peculiar uncle, Ben Lewis (Lewis Black), a former Harmon College professor, to play that role, and he leases an abandoned psychiatric hospital adjacent to Harmon College and renovates it to look like a college campus. Their plan backfires when the website, which automatically accepts any applicant, enrolls hundreds of other rejected students. Bartleby realizes that these people have nowhere else to go, so he lets them believe that the school is real, a place where they will finally feel accepted, despite objections from his friends. After a visit to Harmon disenchants him with traditional college life, he has the students create their own curricula. Students write down what they want to learn on a giant whiteboard, ranging from the culinary arts, sculpting, meditations, to unusual courses such as psychokinesis, a subject one eccentric kid (Jeremy Howard) wishes to study.
Bartleby creates a school newspaper (the S.H.I.T. Rag), invents a mascot (the S.H.I.T. Sandwiches), and throws themed parties, turning South Harmon into a party school. Meanwhile, the narcissistic dean of Harmon College, Richard Van Horne (Anthony Heald), makes plans to construct the Van Horne Gateway, a park-like "verdant buffer zone" adjacent to the college that the dean hopes will "keep knowledge in and ignorance out". He dispatches Hoyt Ambrose (Travis Van Winkle) to free up the nearby properties, but when Bartleby refuses to relinquish the lease for the South Harmon property, Hoyt sets to work trying to reveal the college as a fake. The dispute turns personal, since Bartleby has been vying for the affections of Hoyt's ex-girlfriend, Monica Moreland (Blake Lively). Hoyt exposes South Harmon as a fake institution through Sherman, who is attempting to join Hoyt's fraternity as a legacy, but is constantly humiliated and abused by them. After debasing Sherman once more, the fraternity violently forces him to hand over all the files he has created for South Harmon.
Hoyt contacts all the students' parents, and with Van Horne, he reveals the school as a sham. Soon after, the school is forced to close, but Sherman, who has had enough with Harmon College's corruption, files for accreditation on behalf of South Harmon, giving Bartleby a chance to make his college legitimate. At the subsequent State of Ohio educational accreditation hearing, Bartleby makes an impassioned speech about the failures of conventional education and the importance of following one's own passions, convincing the board to grant his school a one-year probationary accreditation to test his new system, thus foiling Van Horne's plans. The college reopens, with more students enrolling, including Sherman and Monica. In addition, Bartleby finally earns the approval of his father, who is proud that his son now owns a college. As the film closes, Van Horne walks to his car in the parking lot, only to watch it suddenly explode. Bartleby watches in astonishment as the eccentric student from earlier makes his interest in psychokinetic explosion a reality.

Tags: romantic, action

Review:
I don't think I've yet seen a movie in my whole lifetime about a high school kid creating his own college, just to impress his parents.
I for one was very anxious to watch this movie.Though I knew it was going to be another type of movie in the style of Revenge of the Nerds, I was still impressed.There is plenty of truth to the fact of this type of learning and believe very strongly that it should be allowed in a "new style of schooling".Conventional teaching methods do not always teach students what they need to know or should know or want to know.This approach to teaching should be further sought out in true academic courses.While there still was too much of the partying scenes, it obviously had to be thrown in there - for Hollywood's sake of making a comedy about college...even though we all know that life isn't really like that by any means.A touch unbelievable, still funny and with a killer ending.Awesome ending.
Crucial to the entire story and very surprising.Without the final scene, the movie would have been half as good.I liked this movie and it didn't have to have overly amounts of swearing or nudity or gross out jokes for it to be good.Great crew and cast, story and even the generic typecasting of the obligatory "Hampton frat members" was well done.American Pie 1, 2 3 and American Wedding or whatever clones it makes doers not measure up to this by 1/3.Far better than most comedies about first year College with no demeaning stupid jokes to make somebody throw up with.I liked it, even though it was simple...it was interesting and even had heart...my only regret for watching this movie is that it wasn't longer..
While the plot is a little off-beat, everybody in the making of this movie pulled off a pleasant flick good for many a laugh.
Better yet, they are delivered with aplomb by unknown actors doing a good job, all of them.The main reasons I wanted to see this movie were Justin Long and Lewis Black.
Yes it's another underdog story but not in your typical format and the movie wasn't their ups and downs, it was people coming together for one common goal, To go to college where they were accepted.
I recommend this movie to whoever hated those gross comedies of the last 4 years and really want something with humor and an actually story line!~!.
I had a good time, a lot of the jokes were laugh-out-loud funny, and even though I wouldn't pay to see it again, it was worth seeing once.
In my opinion, Accepted is based on one of the most relevant topic of our generation wherein the agony and feelings of all those students who due to one reason or another are unable to get accepted to a good enough college after completion of their high school.
The central character played by Justin long who when unable to get accepted to any College starts an Unaccredited college along with a few of his friends so as to fulfill the expectations and dreams of his family.
During the course of this, the whole lot of students like him which too were not accepted to any of the college come to this institute to pursue higher studies.
This movie provides proper insight to our education system and its inability to carve innovation and fuel imagination in young fresh minds which wants only "possibilities" in life and a belief that they also can contribute to the development of world and change the face of time on their watch.
Bartleby Gaines (Justin Long) has not had any luck getting into a single college, so in order to get his parents off his back, he creates the South Harmon Institute of Technology but before he and his friends can enjoy slacking off there, hundreds of applicants show up to be admitted to the one college that won't turn them down.Accepted may not offer much originality but it does offer a good time.
Animal House will forever be the college comedy to which other similar films are compared.Risky Business was more purposeful, Ferris Buehler tighter and Old School better acted.So where does this leave "Accepted"?
Something that is not very funny because it got this very mild humor for that actual teen but at the same time it wasn’t that bad.Synopsis: B is good in extra curriculum, unfortunately that doesn’t help in a place at any university.
Problem arises when other students also get accepted into this fake college.Not bad of an idea, not an original, but who care, it’s a teen movie after all.
But here he hardly does anything.I love the cast, I love Justin Long, which guy is funny, I always follow his work and he does a pretty good job as “B”.
This movie is for someone older and pre-teen that does not look for toilet humor and more life good morale kind of movie.Recommendation: Yea Sure, It Worth A Rental.Reason To Watch: Justin Long, Fake College.Reason Not To: If you’re A Teenager Looking For Real Humor and Nudity.Rating: 6.5/10 (Grade: C+).
(Not that they are willing to let go of low-functioning students who will end up working fast food anyways.) This movie is one in the college comedy genre, i.e. Animal House.
I must admit that I laughed a few times, but mainly in a "holy sh*t, I can't believe how stupid this is" kind of way.If you never see this movie you're not missing a thing..
This movie was disappointing.Being a fan of Justin Long after watching WAITING and DODGEBALL I thought this one would very much make me laugh also.
It seemed like the only funny parts were marketed in the trailer.I do admit that I did laugh a few times (mainly forced laughs), but I wanted the movie to end after about 50 minutes.
The acting is high school at best, the story line would probably appeal to true slacker, or possibly crack heads, and the entire feel and flow of the movie would put a speed freak to sleep for a week.
we've seen this college campus jokes script before, only it was funny and called Van Wilder.If you get completely stoned and drunk and watch this movie- you will be able to survive it and enjoy it.Otherwise you will be fast forwarding a lot to get to what might be a good joke.THe Skin factor is not here either- there's some teases in bikinis that's all.This is like a non-fat, diet version of comedy.
Designed to try and offend no one but in the process has very little entertainment value.I liked the friend characters- with the exception of the blatant politically correct worthless additions - the artsy girl, and we have TOKEN the black friend which is lame and not required and adds zero humor and actually reduces the humor quotient since artsy girl and token black friend are worthless as comedians.PLOT: A guy who can't get accepted to college makes a fictional college and things get out of hand.
Seriously,i decided to watch a movie to get some laughs and chill and i bumped into this.After reading some reviews i decided to give it a go with the expectation this movie to be at least as half as good the reviews demonstrated.However to my bad luck i realised i just wasted 93 minutes of my life that i,unfortunately,cannot take back ever again.The movie is totally unrealistic.There isn't any character development,the ending is predictable and i am sure that this movie will remind you of many others.Logic isn't here.Neither is humor.I really recommend this movie to anyone who wants to give end to his miserable life and doesn't know why..
The majority of the movie is kind of an anti-climax, so for the duration we see the guys making preperations and attempting to make it through.Not good from the producer of the excellent comedy 'Bruce Almighty'..
It's nice to see a good Idea (start "relax" college)come to life in a film..
If you are looking for comedy gold like "Old School" or "Anchorman", this isn't your movie.
some movie is looking over reality like this one a guy making fool his parents that he accepted in a university which is fake and made by him in a old dirty place with help of some friend and many student comes there to get admission when his friend made website about university and they all happy because they can do whatever they want they don't need to study about a subject who they don't want they have freedom to choose any subject even it's exist in course or not thinking is good as movie little inspiration and really can i guy do this in real world is very big anything can possible accept this one haha but a good movie i enjoyed it and i feel joyful when in last his university was approved by government.
Well, it certainly isn't as uproariously funny as "Animal House" (with the incomparable John Belushi) was when it first came out, but it has a thought provoking message.Good comedies (as well as good thrillers) require surprising audiences with a scene taking a turn they didn't expect.
While "Accepted" is basically a slacker movie, it also displays some of the irony of the expectations of a college education.
As a result the film, despite its plot's inherent ridiculousness, is better than many of the slacker movies that preceded it.There are various reasons for wanting a college education.
Included in this is stretching the mind by learning new ways of looking at things, and also fostering creativity and innovation."Accepted" makes a case for a school devoted to fostering creativity and allowing students to explore their interests.
The important difference is that in Oxford and Cambridge professors are available for guidance and to get a degree your advisers must be satisfied with your level of knowledge."Accepted" also points out that some bright people don't get accepted to an affordable 4-year college because they didn't apply themselves to study in high school, not because they aren't "college material." "Accepted" is still a slacker comedy and its more serious side is not all that serious, but it can make you think, which is more than most slacker movies do..
Though less comedy, more stereotypical drama, Accepted is a good addition to a long list of films that should be recommended to watch.
After too many years in high school, likable Justin Long (as Bartleby "B" Gaines) still can't get accepted at college.
And, the "A.D.D." student - Robin Lord Taylor amusing as "Abernathy Darwin Dunlap" - is handled better than the running "S.H.I.T." joke.***** Accepted (8/18/06) Steve Pink ~ Justin Long, Jonah Hill, Lewis Black, Blake Lively.
Animal House, the king of all college movies, had a cast of interesting characters that were developed through dialog and non-joke scenes.
The movie centres around Bartely or B who has been rejected from all of his colleges- the actor who play B is very natural and makes his character seem real- and decides to create a pretend school so his parents stop harassing him.
I wasn't too interested in seeing Accepted, from the trailer, it looked like your typical college frat boy film that would either have annoying or gross humor.
His close friends help him create an abandoned building into a college, but other rejects from other schools hear about South Harmon Institute of Technology and decide that they want to go their too.
But there is a group of frat boys at the snobby college who want to tear down South Harmon Institute of Technology since that's where all the fun is.Over all, I'd recommend Accepted, it was a fun movie to watch, although I still think that it had junior high comedy that is really old, it still worked for the movie.
So if you like quick wit and just really want to laugh this is a good movie to go see.
And what the movie lacks on the page is made up for in the casting.Justin Long gives an excellent performance as Bartleby Gaines, a guy who has just graduated from high school but has been rejected from every college he has applied to.
It is about time Justin Long had the lead in a big comedy, and I can only root for more.Jonah Hill, who plays Bartleby's best friend, Sherman, also turns in a surprisingly solid performance in the side-kick role.
The idea had potential, but the plot and turns are very by-the-numbers and the people behind it, like the students in the movie, were apparently content half-assing it."Accepted" is fairly harmless.
This rather forgettable movie is watchable, but neither funny nor particularly entertaining.(+) A few good actors who have done better work elsewhere: Hill, Lively, Thayer.
"Accepted" is about a small band of high school graduates, led by Bartleby Gaines (Justin Long), that began a college.
The movie had good moments and provided a solid story of a school started by students.
Along with movies like Animal House, PCU and Old School this is one of the comedies that best captures the spirit of great comedy.Bartelby is a graduating high school senior who's a bit of a slacker who doesn't get into any of the college he applies for.
To start off Accepted is very funny and its also much different then many college comedies.
Almost all the really funny lines come from him and without him the film wouldn't have been as goodIt's a good, new style of college comedy that was needed to freshen up the otherwise clichéd and predictable genre.
But being it 'irreverent' in nature the story doesn't take itself very seriously and it goes where you expect: the cool nice guy, the funny gang, with the blonde love interest and the loyal friend, campus fiestas, a pool, and a favorable ending.You can make an interesting reflexion about some ideas in the movie: the freedom of choice and the power of chance over rejection.
this movie is a lot of fun,, our main character creates a college for people like himself who have been turned down by every other accredited college on the planet.
It looks like a teen movie but people no nude scenes, no t*ts, no b**bs & less(NO) nonsense.4 young people were not accepted in any of the colleges around them, so to satisfy their parents & also to get a college guy/girl image they create a fake college, called South Hampton Institute of Technology - s.h.i.t and they become s.h.i.t Heads.
At a certain time in the movie Justin Long's character is forced to think of a solution for the situation he has put himself in.
Some guys get all the luck as the song goes, while others just have to make do and wait for their time.And of course, the role of Bartleby Gaines is perfect for Long, given the character waits and gets rejected by just about every school out there, only for him to hatch a hare brain idea to start his own university, so that he can shake his parents off his back.
It's a great teen comedy that doesn't just use profanity and d*ck-and-fart jokes to pull it off.Like I said, the plot is incredibly unrealistic, but to those of you who think that makes a movie bad, chill.
The fact that the movie then tries to take itself serious as a social commentary on education is an entire waste of time given how implausible the whole situation is in the first place.In other words, this comedy on premise alone applies it's going nowhere from the start, even if you desperately want it to, and some of the humor makes it a bit above trash level for the most part.
The persona this movie takes on "High School teen comedy" is not what it is entirely about; it has a different message behind it that it really wanted to get out.
Of course, Jonah Hill is also pretty good in his part as the insecure friend not to mention Justin Long shines in his part.Overall, this movie was surprisingly smart and has an underlying message that we should all try to learn from..
the perfect funny movie about a college for the year of 2006 and one of the most funniest films ever which will make u laugh and jump up and down and it may disappoint ur parents so be careful loll ....
i ain't gonna tell the whole story line of this movie here so u should watch it to see wht happens believe me if u don't like it u must be someone without a good knowledge about education ha ha ha lol just kidding guys ....
This is unfortunate, but there is very little one can do about it.The movie is basically a dream-like idea of a rejected high-schooler making college as he sees it.
Justin Long is witty as always therefore making Accepted one entertaining movie :)...enjoy it yourselves buy it...eventually :)On another note, Lewis Black's performance was in no way what I expected.
But if you yourself are a high school student going through the admissions process or recently got rejected by your first-choice college, I think you'll find this movie a great choice to watch with your friends.
It was funny the whole time, and it was full of energy, and it shows that teens can have great ideas for college!I loved it, and I laughed the whole way, and I was happy when I first saw the movie, and I was happy when I walked out.
A good laugh here and there but, I tend to like these kind of movies..
The plot in this story is that Bartleby (Justin Long) doesn't get accepted into any of the schools he applied, so he makes another fake college for him and his friends so that he can fool his parents that he DID make it into college.