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National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
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It spawned a number of puerile spin-offs, but this cheerfully vulgar offering deserves the status of comedy classic. As well as providing John Belushi with his best ever role, it also helped launch the career of a number of rising young actors (Kevin Bacon, Tom Hulce, Peter Riegert), not to mention director John Landis and co-writer Harold Ramis, who went on to star with Bill Murray in the Ghostbusters movies and direct him in the hilarious Groundhog Day. There's not much of a plot to speak of: at a US college in the early 1960s, dean John Vernon decides to remove the depraved Delta House fraternity from the campus; Belushi and his fellow students decide to fight back. Everyone remembers the food fight, but the film is crammed with smart sight gags and one-liners, and Belushi's incomprehensible rallying speech at the end is quite wonderful. JF
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Running time
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104min
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Country of origin
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US
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Genre
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Comedy
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Original language
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English
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Screenplay
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Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney, Chris Miller
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Theatrical distributor
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Universal
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UK cinema certificate
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15
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UK cinema release date
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October 2009
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