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National Lampoon's Animal House is a 1978 American comedy film directed by John Landis. The screenplay was adapted by Douglas Kenney, Chris Miller and Harold Ramis from stories written by Miller and published in National Lampoon magazine based on Miller's experiences in the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity at Dartmouth College, as well as Ramis' experiences in the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity at Washington University in St. Louis, and Reitman's experiences at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. The film is about a misfit group of fraternity men who challenge their college's administrators.

Early casting ideas included Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, Brian Doyle-Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and John Belushi. Of these five comedians, only Belushi was cast and he received $35,000 for the film with a bonus after it became a hit. Several of the actors, including Karen Allen and Kevin Bacon, were just beginning their careers. The studio's executives disagreed with Landis' selections and wanted to cast dramatic actors as well as comedians.

Upon its initial release, Animal House received generally mixed but often positive reviews from critics, with Time and the famed Roger Ebert proclaiming it one of the year's best. It is considered to be the movie that launched the gross-out genre, although it was predated by several films now also included in the genre. Initially budgeted at a modest $2.7 million (raised to $3 million after production got underway) , the film has turned out to be one of the most profitable movies of all time. Since its initial release, Animal House has garnered an estimated return of more than $141 million in the form of video and DVDs, not including merchandising. In 2001, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film culturally significant and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. This film is number 1 on Bravo's 100 Funniest Movies. It was number 36 on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs list of the 100 best American comedies.

Plot summary

Two freshmen, Larry and Kent, are trying to get accepted to a fraternity at fictional Faber College in 1962. They first try their luck at the Omega Theta Pi House invitational party but are repeatedly steered to an area with other undesirables. They then try next door at the Delta Tau Chi House, where Kent's brother was once a member. They meet John "Bluto" Blutarsky, urinating outside the building. The Deltas "need the dues," so Larry and Kent are allowed to pledge Delta. They are accepted into ΔΤΧ and given the fraternity names "Pinto" (Larry) and "Flounder" (Kent). Meanwhile, Dean Vernon Wormer is trying to remove the Delta fraternity from campus due to repeated conduct violations. Since they are already on probation, he puts the Deltas on "Double Secret Probation" and orders the clean-cut Omega president Greg Marmalard to assign Doug the job of finding a way to get rid of the Deltas once and for all.

At the campus ROTC detachment drills, Doug, the pompous cadet commander, spots Flounder wearing a pledge pin on his uniform and berates him. Later, he orders Flounder to clean his horse's filthy stable stall, Boon and Otter whom where on the hill nearby the field with a bag of golf clubs overhear Doug bullying Flounder and Boon admonishes Hey he can't do that to our pledges! To which Otter replies Only we can do that to our pledges! Boon then pulls a driver out of the bag and tees up a ball and attempts to hit Doug in the head with it. The first ball misses and instead crashes through the window of the school kitchen and into the soup that the cafeteria cook is preparing. Boon's second swing sends the ball right through the window of Dean Wormer's office shattering a glass pitcher and soaking the papers on his desk. Otter then takes the driver and seems to have more luck, his first swing sends the ball smack dab into Doug's beloved horses hind end startling the horse and nearly throwing Doug off. Otter's second swing the ball hits Doug right in the middle of his forehead knocking him off the saddle and terrified the horse takes off running dragging Doug behind it. Bluto and D-Day talk Flounder into sneaking the hated animal into Dean Wormer's office. They give him a gun and tell him to shoot it. Unbeknownst to Flounder, the gun is loaded with blanks. He cannot bring himself to kill the horse and fires into the ceiling, but the noise so startles the horse that its heart fails and it dies. In the cafeteria the next day, Bluto provokes Marmalard and Omega pledge Chip with his impression of a popping zit. This starts a food fight that engulfs the cafeteria.

Bluto and D-Day rummage through a trash bin to steal the answers to an upcoming psychology test. However, the exam stencil had been planted by the Omegas, and the Deltas get every answer wrong. Their grade point averages drop so low that Wormer only needs one more incident to revoke the charter that allows them to remain on campus. Undaunted, the Deltas organize a toga party. A drunken Mrs. Wormer crashes the party and spends the night with Otter. That turns out to be the last straw. Wormer gets the fraternity's charter revoked, and their belongings are confiscated. To take their minds off their troubles, Otter, Boon, Flounder and Pinto go on a road trip. Otter picks up some girls from a local liberal arts college, Emily Dickinson College, by pretending to be the boyfriend of a girl recently killed on campus. They stop at the Dexter Lake Club, a roadhouse which has an all-black clientèle. Otis Day and the Knights happen to be playing there that night. Some of the hulking regulars are not amused and intimidate the guys into fleeing without their dates.

Things go from bad to worse. Babs "reveals" to Greg that his girlfriend, Mandy, and Otter are having an affair. (In reality, though, there was no affair. Babs made it up because she wants Greg for herself.) Greg and some of his fellow Omegas lure Otter to a motel and beat him up. The Deltas' midterm grades are so bad that they are all expelled from school by Wormer and their draft boards are notified of their eligibility. For revenge, the Deltas decide to wreak havoc on the annual Homecoming parade, inspired by Bluto's impassioned speech. In the ensuing chaos, Bluto steals a car, abducts Mandy and drives off into the sunset, or rather to Washington, D.C., as the futures of many of the main characters are revealed.

Cast

Delta Tau Chi (ΔΤΧ)

• Tim Matheson as Eric "Otter" Stratton: a smooth playboy whose room is a pristine seduction den amid the sheer filth of the rest of the Delta house. Otter is the fraternity's rush chairman, and essentially the fraternity's unofficial leader. He goes on to become a gynecologist in Beverly Hills.
• Peter Riegert as Donald "Boon" Schoenstein: Otter's best friend, who is forever having to decide between his Delta pals and his girlfriend Katy. He marries Katy in 1964, but they divorce in 1969. In the book adaptation Boon becomes a cab driver and part-time writer in New York City.
• John Belushi as John "Bluto" Blutarsky: a drunken degenerate with his own style, in his seventh year of college, sporting a GPA of 0.0. He goes on to become a United States Senator.
• James Widdoes as Robert Hoover: the affable, reasonably clean-cut president of the fraternity, who desperately struggles to maintain a façade of normality to placate the Dean. He becomes a public defender in Baltimore.
• Bruce McGill as Daniel Simpson Day, "D-Day": a tough biker with no grade point average: all classes incomplete. His later whereabouts are unknown.
• Douglas Kenney as "Stork": During his first year, everyone thought the Stork was brain damaged; indeed, he only speaks two lines in the entire film.
• Thomas Hulce as Lawrence "Pinto" Kroger: a shy but normal fellow, who becomes the editor of National Lampoon magazine. "Pinto" was screenwriter Chris Miller's nickname at his Dartmouth fraternity.
• Stephen Furst as Kent "Flounder" Dorfman: an overweight, clumsy legacy pledge, later a sensitivity trainer in Cleveland.

Omega Theta Pi (ΩΘΠ)

• James Daughton as Gregory Marmalard: the president of Omega House and boyfriend of Mandy Pepperidge. He goes on to become a Nixon White House aide and is subsequently raped in prison in 1974.
• Mark Metcalf as Douglas C. Niedermeyer: an ROTC cadet officer and scion of a military family who hates the Deltas with unbridled passion. He is killed by his own troops in Vietnam.
• Kevin Bacon as Chip Diller: an Omega pledge who is trampled by the panicking crowd (in cartoonlike fashion) at the end of the movie.

Supporting characters

• John Vernon as Dean Vernon Wormer: he wants to revoke the Deltas' charter and kick them off-campus.
• Verna Bloom as Marion Wormer: the Dean's dipsomaniac wife.
• Karen Allen as Katy: Boon's frustrated girlfriend who has a dalliance with a professor but subsequently goes on to marry and then divorce Boon.
• Donald Sutherland as Professor Dave Jennings: a bored English professor who tries to turn his students on to left-wing politics and drug use.
• Sarah Holcomb as Clorette DePasto: the mayor's 13-year-old daughter, who sleeps with Larry.
• DeWayne Jessie as Otis Day: the leader of the band (Otis Day and the Knights) that plays at the toga party.
• Mary Louise Weller as Mandy Pepperidge: a cheerleader and sorority girl who dates Greg, but is not satisfied with the relationship. She later marries Bluto.
• Martha Smith as Barbara Sue "Babs" Jansen: a Souther

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