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Accepted
After receiving his latest college rejection letter, Bartleby Gaines opts to create his own institution of higher learning, the South Harmon Institute of Technology.
4 October 1980, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
1971, Costa Mesa, California, USA
22 May 1961, Brooklyn, New York, USA
23 August 1981, Sacramento County, California, USA
29 April 1957, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
17 May 1960, Beirut, Lebanon
8 January 1979, Munster, Indiana, USA
4 June 1978, Shueyville, Iowa, USA
25 August 1987, Tarzana, Los Angeles, California, USA
2 October 1975, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
17 January 1979, Misawa, Japan
12 June 1981, Burbank, California, USA
29 May 1988, Los Angeles, California, USA
14 May 1974, Westwood, California, USA
26 March 1984, Scappoose, Oregon, USA
March 15, 2007
Though keeping worthwhile targets - like professors who want to see their most creative students fail - director Steve Pink lets his punk inspiration slide into standard school rivalries and unrelated slapstick.
October 05, 2006
Average comedy that's low on jokes and doesn't quite live up to its premise, though it remains watchable thanks to a charming performance by Justin Long.
November 12, 2006
[Accepted] would be funnier with an R rating on principle
December 28, 2010
It has a few funny bits here and there, but they're deeply mired in the seen-it-all-beforeness of the film.
March 01, 2007
The movie works on the pure energy of its straight-faced silliness.
August 18, 2006
Go right ahead and skip this one at the Cineplex. You've got my word: It won't be on the final.
May 17, 2007
Sporadically entertaining but relentlessly lightweight...
August 21, 2006
Even the characters in the movie are saying at the beginning, 'This is crazy. This will never work.' And I'm like, you know what? You're right. It never will. Not for one second. Even in a whacky comedy like this.
August 18, 2006
If you can lighten up for an hour and a half, the film delivers one good laugh after another.
August 18, 2006
Too bad what begins as a cheerfully irreverent comedy in the tradition of Animal House gets all pious when it slams fraternity culture at neighboring Harmon College.
August 18, 2006
Even though it outright plagiarizes many plot points and gags of that generational classic, Accepted can't make the leap from contrived to genuine comedy.
August 19, 2006
Here's the final mystery about Accepted: Why title a movie that so readily invites the headline Rejected as a critical riposte?
