Tuesday, October 17, 2006 05:16:08 AM
NEWS
Accepted with Lewis Black on DVD November 10th
Higher education hits an all-time low
when Accepted, the hilariously irreverent
comedy hit about a loveable group of misfit
slackers who create their own college,
comes to DVD on November 14, 2006
from the studio that brought you
American Pie, Universal Studios
Home Entertainment. With a cast
of fresh young faces including
Justin Long (The Break-Up,
Herbie Fully Loaded, Dodgeball:
A True Underdog Story),
Jonah Hill (Click, The 40 Year Old Virgin),
Blake Lively (Sisterhood of the
Traveling Pants), Maria Thayer
(Hitch), Adam Herschman, and
Columbus Short (War of
the Worlds) plus veterans
Anthony Heald (X Men: Last Stand),
Lewis Black (“The Daily Show with
Jon Stewart”) and Mark Derwin
(“Boston Legal”), Accepted is
a frat party of a film, complete
with raucous and raunchy laughs.
In his directing debut,
High Fidelity and Grosse
Pointe Blank screenwriter
Steve Pink has
created a boldfaced, nose-thumbin
g campus farce, guaranteed to
keep audiences laughing long after the credits roll. Produced by Tom Shadyac
and Michael Bostick – the collaborators behind the forthcoming comedy feature
film Evan Almighty, as well as previous comedy blockbusters Bruce Almighty
and Liar Liar – the Accepted DVD contains more than an hour of hilarious
bonus features including scenes too out of control for the theatrical
version, sidesplitting outtakes, exclusive downloadable MP3s and insider
commentary from the stars and director.
In Accepted, high school slacker Bartleby Gaines (“B” to his buddies)
is willing to do whatever it takes to keep his parents from finding out
he’s been rejected by every college he applied to – even if that means
creating a bogus university, with a demented burnout of a dean (Lewis Black) and a
curriculum that includes “How to Design a Smokin’ MySpace Page” and “Cooking with
Illicit Substances.”
Many critics across the country raved about Accepted’s look at college life.
“This generation’s Animal House,” proclaimed Steven Chupnick of MovieWeb.com.
Daniel Newman of the Richmond Times Dispatch concurred that Accepted is “easily
the funniest college film since Animal House.” Maxim’s Pete Hammond added
“Accepted makes the comedy honor roll for being inventive and riotously funny.”
In addition, Mark Holcomb of Time Out NY noted the film to be, “warm, fitfully
hilarious and unexpectedly radical.”
BONUS FEATURES
Deleted Scenes & Outtakes – Over 20 minutes of gut-busting deleted scenes and outtakes.
Adam’s Accepted Chronicles – Follow Adam Herschman as he tackles his first starring role in a
feature film for an unconventional glimpse of life on a movie set.
Reject Rejection: The Making of Accepted – Accepted’s talented young cast
of skateboard champions, football players, cheerleaders and more is let loose on
the set and the results are hilarious!
Self-Guided Campus Tour – Bartleby’s hilariously wild world is brought to life
through an interactive graphic map of the South Harmon Institute of Technology campus.
“Hangin’ On the Half Pipe” – The outrageous frat party music video!
“Keepin’ Your Head Up!” – Ringers music video!
Feature Commentary with actors Lewis Black, Justin Long, Jonah Hill and Adam Herschman,
plus director Steve Pink.
DVD-ROM MP3s including “B Goes to BKE,” “Uncle Ben's Theme,” “B and Hoyt Showdown,” “Party at BKE,” “Monica” and “B Kisses Monica.”
Synopsis
Go back to school this fall at a college where you don’t have to be smart,
athletic or even good-looking to be Big Dude on Campus. After being rejected
every place else, Bartleby “B” Gaines (Justin Long) and an outrageous band
of misfits start their own university to keep their parents from finding out.
As “B” and his buddies take on a course load that emphasizes partying over
studying, the South Harmon Institute of Technology attracts a
standing-room-only crowd of losers, slackers, dweebs and rejects,
as well as the unwanted attention of the snide dean of nearby Harmon College
(Anthony Heald). An all-out, low-down battle between the two schools proves
that there’s more to college life than just being Accepted.
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