Accepted is a 2006 American comedy film Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor. Also, films in this style typically have a happy ending . One of the oldest genres in film, some of the very first silent movies were comedies. Comedy, unlike other film genres, puts much more focus on individual stars, with many former stand-up comic transitioning to the film centered on a group of would-be college freshmen A freshman or fresher (UK) (or sometimes fish, freshie, fresher. Slang plural frosh or freshmeat) is a first-year student in an educational institution. The term first year can also be used as a noun, to describe the students themselves (e.g. They are first years) who, after being rejected from all the colleges College is a term most often used today in Ireland and the United States to denote a degree-awarding tertiary educational institution and in other English-speaking countries to refer to a secondary school in private educational systems. More broadly, it can refer to any group of colleagues, such as an electoral college, a College of Arms or the and universities A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is a corporation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education. The word university is derived from the Latin universitas magistrorum et scholarium, roughly meaning "community of to which they had applied, proceed to create their own "college".

Though Accepted is presented as a light comedy, the film has a dramatic undertone throughout its progress that makes it highly critical of the United States college system and the college ranking system.

Plot

Bartleby Gaines (Justin Long Justin Jacob Long is an American film and television actor. He is best known for his roles in the Hollywood films Jeepers Creepers, Dodgeball, Waiting..., Accepted, Live Free or Die Hard/Die Hard 4.0, He's Just Not That Into You, and Drag Me To Hell; and his personification of a Mac in Apple's "Get a Mac" advertisement campaign) is a persuasive high-school senior who, among other pranks, creates fake IDs. His gifts do not extend to grades, however, and he receives rejection letters from all of the universities and colleges to which he applies. In an attempt to seek approval from his strict father (Mark Derwin), Bartleby creates a fake college, the South Harmon Institute of Technology (S.H.I.T.). He is aided by his friend Sherman Schrader III (Jonah Hill Jonah Hill Feldstein is an American actor, producer and screenwriter. Hill has had a successful career as an actor in comedy films, and has appeared in Accepted, Grandma's Boy, Evan Almighty, Superbad, Strange Wilderness, Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Funny People), who has been accepted into the prestigious Harmon College, and fellow rejects Rory (Maria Thayer), who was rejected from Yale University, the only school she applied to, Hands (Columbus Short), who lost his athletic scholarship after an injury, and Glen (Adam Herschman), who got a "0" on the SAT The SAT Reasoning Test is a standardized test for college admissions in the United States. The SAT is owned, published, and developed by the College Board, a non-profit organization in the United States. It was formerly developed, published, and scored by the Educational Testing Service which still administers the exam. The College Board claims when he neglected to sign his name.

To make the "college" seem legitimate, Bartleby convinces his best friend Sherman to create a fully functional Web site for the school. Concluding that an actual physical campus is required to continue the ruse, Bartleby leases an abandoned psychiatric hospital Psychiatric hospitals, also known as mental hospitals, are hospitals specializing in the treatment of serious mental disorder adjacent to Harmon College and renovates it to look like a college campus. When his father insists on meeting the dean, Bartleby hires Schrader's uncle, Ben Lewis (Lewis Black Lewis Niles Black is a Grammy Award-winning American stand-up comedian, author, playwright and actor. He is known for his comedy style which often includes simulating a mental breakdown or an increasingly angry rant, ridiculing history, politics, religion, trends and cultural phenomena. He hosts Comedy Central's The Root of All Evil and makes), to play that role.

The seemingly innocent ploy quickly spins out of control when the Web site, 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. After a visit to Harmon disenchants him with traditional college life, he has the students make up their own classes and be their own teachers: students write down what they want to learn on a giant whiteboard.

Meanwhile, the dean of nearby Harmon College, Richard Van Horne (Anthony Heald), makes plans to construct the Van Horne Gateway, an adjacent park-like "verdant buffer zone to 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. In a subplot, Bartleby also vies with Hoyt for the affections of Harmon College student, and Hoyt's girlfriend, Monica Moreland (Blake Lively).

Hoyt exposes South Harmon as a fake institution through Sherman, who is attempting to join Hoyt's fraternity There are known fraternal organizations which existed as far back as ancient Greece and Rome, and analogous institutions in the late medieval period called confraternities, which were lay organizations allied to the Catholic Church. These confraternities evolved into purely secular fraternal societies such as Freemasonry, which in turn was used as. After having Sherman beaten up, Hoyt forces him to hand over all the files he has created for South Harmon. He then contacts all the students' parents to expose the school as a fake. Soon after, the Institute is shut down, but Sherman's having taken the initiative to file for accreditation gives Bartleby a chance to make his school legitimate.

At the State of Ohio The government of Ohio is composed of the executive branch, led by the Governor; the legislative branch, which comprises the Ohio General Assembly; and the judicial branch, which is led by the Supreme Court. Currently, Ohio occupies 18 seats in the United States House of Representatives. Ohio is known for its status as both a swing state and a educational accreditation Educational accreditation is a type of quality assurance process under which services and operations of an educational institution or program are evaluated by an external body to determine if applicable standards are met. If standards are met, accredited status is granted by the agency hearing, Bartleby makes an impassioned speech about the failures of conventional education, convincing the board to grant his school a one-year probation to test his new system. The Institute reopens, with more students enrolling, including Sherman and Monica. Also, Bartleby finally earns the approval of his father, who is proud that his son actually owns a college.

The movie closes to cast and crew with the 'mind blowing' of Richard Van Horne's car by a student of the South Harmon Institute of Technology whose interest was to blow things up using his mind.

Cast

• Justin Long Justin Jacob Long is an American film and television actor. He is best known for his roles in the Hollywood films Jeepers Creepers, Dodgeball, Waiting..., Accepted, Live Free or Die Hard/Die Hard 4.0, He's Just Not That Into You, and Drag Me To Hell; and his personification of a Mac in Apple's "Get a Mac" advertisement campaign as Bartleby Gaines
• Jonah Hill Jonah Hill Feldstein is an American actor, producer and screenwriter. Hill has had a successful career as an actor in comedy films, and has appeared in Accepted, Grandma's Boy, Evan Almighty, Superbad, Strange Wilderness, Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Funny People as Sherman Schrader
• Blake Lively as Monica Moreland
• Anthony Heald as Dean Richard Van Horne
• Lewis Black Lewis Niles Black is a Grammy Award-winning American stand-up comedian, author, playwright and actor. He is known for his comedy style which often includes simulating a mental breakdown or an increasingly angry rant, ridiculing history, politics, religion, trends and cultural phenomena. He hosts Comedy Central's The Root of All Evil and makes as Ben Lewis
• Travis Van Winkle as Hoyt Ambrose
• Adam Herschman as Glen
• Maria Thayer as Rory Thayer
• Columbus Short as Hands
• Mark Derwin as Jack Gaines
• Ann Cusack as Diane Gaines
• Hannah Marks as Lizzie Gaines
• Joe Hursley as Maurice / The Ringers
• Sam Horrigan as Mike Welsh
• Robin Lord Taylor as Abernathy Darwin Dunlap
• Jeremy Howard as Freaky student
• Kaitlin Doubleday as Gwynn
• Diora Baird Diora Baird is an American actress and former model for Guess? who has appeared in films such as Wedding Crashers (2005) and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006) as Kiki
• Ross Patterson as Mike McNaughton
• Kellan Lutz as Dwayne
• Brendan Miller as Wayne
• Ray Santiago as Princeton boy

Release

Critical reception

Accepted was released to mostly negative reviews with an average score of 36% from Rotten Tomatoes Rotten Tomatoes is a website devoted to reviews, information, and news of films, most widely known as a film review aggregator. The name derives from the historical cliché of throwing tomatoes and other vegetables at stage performers if a performance was particularly bad. Flixster has been the parent of Rotten Tomatoes since January 2010.^[3] It received 3 out of 5 stars from Allmovie Allmovie is a commercial database of information about movie stars, movies and television shows. It was founded by popular-culture archivist Michael Erlewine, who also founded Allmusic and Allgame^[4] and a 47 from Metacritic Metacritic is a website that collates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows and DVDs. For each product, a numerical score from each review is obtained and the total is averaged. An excerpt of each review is provided along with a hyperlink to the source. Three colour codes of Green, Yellow and Red summarize the critic's recommendation.^[5] The Rotten Tomatoes Rotten Tomatoes is a website devoted to reviews, information, and news of films, most widely known as a film review aggregator. The name derives from the historical cliché of throwing tomatoes and other vegetables at stage performers if a performance was particularly bad. Flixster has been the parent of Rotten Tomatoes since January 2010 consensus states "like its characters who aren’t able to meet their potential, Accepted's inconsistent and ridiculous plot gets annoying, despite a few laughs."

Box office

The film opened at #5 at the U.S. box office making $10,023,835 in its opening weekend, behind Snakes on a Plane, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby's third weekend, World Trade Center World Trade Center is a true story 2006 disaster film, directed by Oliver Stone and based on the September 11, 2001 attacks on the same-titled towers of New York City. The film stars Nicolas Cage, Michael Peña, Maria Bello, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Michael Shannon. The movie was shot from 19 October 2005 - 10 February 2006's second, and Step Up's second.^[6]

By the end of its run on October 19, 2006, Accepted had grossed $36,323,505 domestically and $2,181,504 internationally, adding up to a worldwide total of $38,505,009^[7]

Use of language

Unlike most PG-13 The Motion Picture Association of America's film-rating system is a rating system for films. It is used in the U.S. and its territories to rate a film's thematic and content suitability for certain audiences. The MPAA system applies only to motion pictures that are submitted for rating. Other media may be rated by other entities. A voluntary films, Accepted has frequent use of the word "shit"; 62 times.^[8] The term is frequently referred to as the acronym Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations that are formed using the initial components in a phrase or name. These components may be individual letters or parts of words (as in Benelux). There is no universal agreement on the precise definition of the various terms (see nomenclature), nor on written usage (see orthographic styling). While popular of "South Harmon Institute of Technology" (S.H.I.T.). It is one of few theatrically released films to bleep out a word; in this case the word "fuck" is bleeped out on its second usage, presumably to avoid an "R" rating for language.

Home release

The film was released on DVD on November 14, 2006, in both widescreen and fullscreen formats. The DVD came supplied with deleted scenes and a gag reel^[9]. Accepted was also one of the films released on HD DVD HD DVD is a defunct high-density optical disc format for storing data and high-definition video. Supported principally by Toshiba, HD DVD was envisioned to be the successor to the standard DVD format. However, in February 2008, after a protracted high definition optical disc format war with rival Blu-ray, Toshiba abandoned the format, announcing format before the format was discontinued.

Soundtrack

1. "U-Mass" by Pixies The Pixies are an American alternative rock band that formed in Boston in 1986. The group disbanded in 1993 under acrimonious circumstances but reunited in 2004. Black Francis , Joey Santiago (guitar), Kim Deal (bass), and David Lovering (drums) have been the band's continual members. While the Pixies found only modest success in their home
2. "Gravity Rides Everything" by Modest Mouse
3. "The Hives Declare Guerre Nucleaire" by The Hives The Hives are a Swedish rock band that first garnered attention in the early 2000s as a prominent group of the garage rock revival, playing garage punk. Their mainstream success came with the release of the "greatest hits" album Your New Favourite Band, featuring their most well-known song "Hate to Say I Told You So". The Hives
4. "Bole 2 Harlem" by Bole 2 Harlem
5. "Eleanor Rigby "Eleanor Rigby" is a song by The Beatles, simultaneously released on the 1966 album Revolver and on a 45rpm single. The song was written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon. With a double string quartet arrangement by George Martin, and striking lyrics about loneliness, the song continued the transformation of the group from a mainly pop-" by David Schommer featuring David Jensen (originally by The Beatles)
6. "TKO" by Le Tigre
7. "Where Do I Begin" by The Chemical Brothers feat. Beth Orton
8. "Sherman's Way" by David Schommer
9. "Keepin' Your Head Up" by The Ringers
10. "Don't You (Forget About Me)" by David Schommer (Originally by Simple Minds)
11. "Holiday" by Weezer Weezer is an American alternative rock band that formed in Los Angeles in 1992. The band now consists of Rivers Cuomo , Patrick Wilson (drums, guitar, backing vocals), Brian Bell (guitar, backing vocals, keyboards), and Scott Shriner (bass, backing vocals, keyboards). The band has changed lineups several times since its formation in 1992. They^[10]
12. "Let The Drummer Kick" by Citizen Cope
13. "To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High)" by Ryan Adams David Ryan Adams is a Grammy Award-nominated American alt-country/rock singer-songwriter from Jacksonville, North Carolina. Initially part of the group Whiskeytown, Ryan Adams left the band to pursue a solo career, releasing Heartbreaker in 2000. A longtime resident of New York City, Adams is probably best known for his song "New York, New
14. "You Think We Suck" by Ape Fight

Other songs not included on the soundtrack:

• "Close to Me" by The Cure The Cure are an English rock band formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976. The band has experienced several line-up changes, with frontman, vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter Robert Smith being the only constant member. The Cure first began releasing music in the late 1970s with their debut album Three Imaginary Boys ; this, along with plays in Bartleby's room whenever the disco ball A disco ball, mirror ball, glitter ball, or ball mirror is a roughly spherical object that reflects light directed at it in many directions, producing a complex display. Its surface consists of hundreds or thousands of facets, nearly all of approximately the same shape and size, and each having a mirrored surface. Usually it is mounted well above comes down
• "Holiday" by Green Day Green Day is an American punk rock trio formed in 1987. The band has consisted of lead vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist and backing vocalist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tré Cool for the majority of its existence. The band is credited as one of the three main bands, along with The Offspring and Rancid, which set the punk revival in. There has been some confusion over the fact that Weezer and Green Day each have a song by the title "Holiday" in the movie, but only the Weezer song is on the official soundtrack.
• "Blitzkrieg Bop" by The Ramones The Ramones were an American rock band that formed in Forest Hills, Queens, New York in 1974 and are often cited as the first punk rock group. Despite achieving only limited commercial success, the band was a major influence on the punk rock movement both in the United States and the United Kingdom. Played at a party held at South Harmon, and Bartleby sings the majority of it on stage. The DVD DVD, also known as Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc, is an optical disc storage media format, and was invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Time Warner in 1995. Its main uses are video and data storage. DVDs are of the same dimensions as compact discs , but are capable of storing more than six times as much data also features a music video A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music/song. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a [marketing] device intended to promote the sale of music recordings. Although the origins of music videos go back much further, they came into their own in the 1980s, when MTV based their format around the of the song featuring the cast and crew.
• "Blitzkrieg Bop" by Justin Long Justin Jacob Long is an American film and television actor. He is best known for his roles in the Hollywood films Jeepers Creepers, Dodgeball, Waiting..., Accepted, Live Free or Die Hard/Die Hard 4.0, He's Just Not That Into You, and Drag Me To Hell; and his personification of a Mac in Apple's "Get a Mac" advertisement campaign with The Ringers
• "Don't Stop" by Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac are a British-American rock band formed in 1967 in London is played during the high school graduation party.
• "I'm Better" by Scott Thomas
• "Sweet Confusion" by Divine Right (band)
• "Spotlight" by The Ringers
• "Walkin' the Walk" by The Daniel May Quartet
• "String Quartet in G, Opus 18" by FLUX Quartet

References

1. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384793/business
2. ^ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=accepted.htm
3. ^ "Rotten Tomatoes' page on Accepted". www.rottentomatoes.com. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/accepted/.
4. ^ "Allmovie's review of Accepted". www.allmovie.com. http://www.allmovie.com/work/329132.
5. ^ "Metacritic's page on Accepted". www.metacritic.com. http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/accepted.
6. ^ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=2006&wknd=33&p=.htm
7. ^ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=accepted.htm
8. ^ IMDb - Parental Guide
9. ^ http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releases/accepted.html
10. ^ "Accepted soundtrack tracklisting". http://www.soundtrackinfo.com/title/tracks.asp?accepted. Retrieved 2008-12-22.

External links

• Official website
• Accepted at the Internet Movie Database The Internet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, actors, television shows, production crew personnel, video games, and most recently, fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. IMDb launched on October 17, 1990, and in 1998 was acquired by Amazon.com
• Accepted at Allmovie Allmovie is a commercial database of information about movie stars, movies and television shows. It was founded by popular-culture archivist Michael Erlewine, who also founded Allmusic and Allgame
• Accepted at Box Office Mojo Box Office Mojo is a website that tracks box office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way. Brandon Gray started the site in August 1998 and claims to now receive over two million monthly visitors
• Accepted at Rotten Tomatoes Rotten Tomatoes is a website devoted to reviews, information, and news of films, most widely known as a film review aggregator. The name derives from the historical cliché of throwing tomatoes and other vegetables at stage performers if a performance was particularly bad. Flixster has been the parent of Rotten Tomatoes since January 2010
• Accepted at Metacritic Metacritic is a website that collates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows and DVDs. For each product, a numerical score from each review is obtained and the total is averaged. An excerpt of each review is provided along with a hyperlink to the source. Three colour codes of Green, Yellow and Red summarize the critic's recommendation

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