College
Headline: ** Debauchery 101 **
Title: COLLEGE
Quality: * * Acceptability: -4
SUBTITLES: None
WARNING CODES:
Language: LLL
Violence: VV
Sex: SSS
Nudity: NN
RATING: R
RELEASE: August 29, 2008
TIME: 94 minutes
STARRING: Drake Bell, Andrew Caldwell, Andree Moss, Carolyn Moss, Wendy Talley, and Kevin Covais
DIRECTOR: Deb Hagen
PRODUCERS: Julie Dangel, Malcolm Petal and Adam Rosenfelt
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Sam Nazarian and Marc Schaberg
WRITERS: Deb Callahan and Adam Ellison
BASED ON THE NOVEL/PLAY BY: N/A
DISTRIBUTOR: MGM
CONTENT: (PaPaPa, HoHo, C, LLL, VV, SSS, NN, AAA, DD, MM) Extremely pagan worldview with strong homosexual elements, though with a slight redemptive message; at least 150 obscenities, seven strong profanities and six light profanities, plus "finger" given by man, vulgar word painted on car, scatological "comedy" with animal dung and cleaning stopped up toilets; characters kidnapped for fraternity hazings, two characters duct taped naked to statue in suggestive pose, characters shot randomly with paint gun, characters in fist fight; very strong sexual content includes three scenes of depicted sexual relations among college kids, multiple scenes of couples including male and lesbians involved in kissing and fondling, much discussion of sex, separately male and female characters pleasure themselves, a lesbian sexual encounter is overheard but not shown, man finding a "sex toy" is overheard, "body shots" where alcohol is drunk from the body of a man; many instances of upper male and female nudity, rear male and female nudity; much drinking and drunkenness; smoking of cigarettes and marijuana; and, lewd gestures, humiliating hazing, theft, lying, revenge, getting fake IDs, and general debauchery.
GENRE: Comedy
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Older teenagers and adults
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MGM Studios Inc.
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SUMMARY: COLLEGE is the story of three high school seniors who visit a college over the weekend and learn to be involved in debauchery. There is nudity, foul language, sexual encounters, and overall debauchery.
IN BRIEF:
COLLEGE is the story of three high school seniors, Kevin, Carter and Morris, who visit a college over the weekend and learn how to be involved in debauchery. Kevin's girlfriend, Gina, dumps him because he's too "normal" and boring. To prove her wrong, he proceeds to drink and party wildly while at a college trip for seniors. With help from his new girlfriend, Kendall, he discovers that his "normal," responsible ways are better than the ways of partying.
This movie is very disturbing, partly because of the message that is given concerning what college is supposedly to be about. The movie portrays drinking to excess, using drugs, and casual sex, including homosexuality, as a normal, expected part of college life. COLLEGE also contains depicted sex and constant sexual discussion. Women appear topless, and there is rear male nudity multiple times and brief rear female nudity. The characters drink heavily and get drunk. Part of the hazing of the characters involves them cleaning up vomit, used condoms, and cleaning clogged toilets; and, this is supposed to be the funny part. COLLEGE isn't very funny, nor does it have anything much worthwhile.
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