Accepted
A high school slacker who's rejected by every school he applies to opts to create his own institution of higher learning, the South Harmon Institute of Technology, on a rundown piece of property near his hometown.
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- Cast:
- Justin Long , Jonah Hill , Blake Lively , Adam Herschman , Columbus Short , Maria Christina Thayer , Lewis Black
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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
There are characters in movies that I immediately identify with and I must admit Bartleby Gaines is one of them. I felt the same pang of recognition as when I watched Jimmy Rabbitte organize his Soul Music Band in Dublin, Ireland in 'The Commitments', or when I watched the little shoeshine boy challenge The Cincinnati Kid to a game of pitching pennies at the end of that movie. 'Hey, that's like me!' or 'Yeah! That's like something I would do!' The truth is 'winging it' has its limitations and sooner or later every student of this subject must eventually pay the piper, no matter how artistic or expert he becomes with this form of discipline. But we true believers of the Faith love it when we see anyone confront a difficult situation with spontaneous creativity rather than the rules or guidelines that come out of some standard textbook. Any artistically inclined person easily relates to the type of creative energy and thinking outside of the box that proves to be Bartleby Gaines' forte. While also appreciating how such aptitudes when not properly supervised can lead to the ill gotten gains of the Confidence Artist amongst others.This movie has lots of nice bits of business in it that brought to mind Robert Donat's improvised speech while on the run from the long arm of the Law in 'The Thirtynine Steps' or Bill Murray's declaration in the middle of the movie 'Quick Change' when he stumbles into a den of thieves and states 'We came for the MONEY!'. You can't help but root for Bartleby and his gang of college rejects as they work the system on behalf of rejects everywhere.Some people love to uphold and defend the Status Quo and other folks are born and bred to defy it. This film lightly explores the uneasy tension between these two groups with often hilarious results. The premise may seem improbable, but I seem to remember when some upstarts seeking the rights and privileges of titled gentlemen and freedom from the Royal Elite thought they could take on the whole of the British Empire and win out. We all know what happened to them. I think all this occurred in some backwater on the East Coast of North America centuries ago.Anyway, the concepts of inclusion and exclusion, inculcating learning to serve the needs of the society at large through authoritarian means and tailoring learning to serve the needs of the individual and the soul on a non-authoritarian basis, are played upon in the scatological vein for laughs and touches upon some interesting insights without putting a damper on any of the fun. There are even a couple of wry nods made to the principles of 'Teaching With Love and Logic' although if you blink you'll miss them.The ending comes across as the adolescent's version of 'Mister Smith Goes to Washington', but I think I've said enough. You'll either go with the premise of this wacky College Comedy or write it off as infantile hogwash.I have a warm sense of amusement inside every time I think of this movie myself.
Bartleby Gaines (Justin Long) is a high school slacker schemer. He is rejected by every college. And his parents won't give him the college money so he comes up with a plan. He and various college reject friends start up their own fake college. Only the website is so real that all kind of people show up after being accepted. Now they have to fake a college for real.Justin Long is his jittery self. Jonah Hill is still fat at the time. Blake Lively is the hot dream girl. The premise is stupid stretched thin to insulting. There are a few good laughs, but it's not enough. The movie just runs out of gas.
Bartleby is a fun loving slacker who gets turned down for every college he applies for, much to the annoyance of his expectant parents.So, he creates the South Harmon Institute of Technology, and lo and behold, he is accepted.However, his parents want to see the website, the campus, and the dean. So now he has his friend Sherman build a web page, they lease out an abandoned psychiatric hospital, and they hire Sherman's uncle Ben to be the dean.The web page was done so well, that hundreds of students show up at the front door, all of which were turned down by other colleges.Faced with no choice, Bartleby decides to proceed with turning South Harmon into a real college......Never really had any intention of seeing this movie, but it was a real treat and harks back to the high school movies of the eighties.Long is great as always and reminds one of Cusack in movies like better off dead and the sure thing. The rest of the cast are okay, but really have nothing on Long.It loses its pace toward the end, what with all the speeches about equality, and the posh school grates after a while, but with films like this, we always need a bad guy, and we always need a heart warming speech.well worth seeing though