November 15 - Animal House

This film has a scene that happens today – November 15. I hope you will enjoy this movie and watch it tonight.

ANIMAL HOUSE

In 1962 at Faber College decidedly uncool Larry Kroger and obese Kent Dorfman are ignored when they attend a ΩΘΠ fraternity rush party. However, since Kent is a legacy of ΔΤΧ fraternity, they are accepted there as pledges and given the nicknames of Pinto and Flounder.  The Omegas are obnoxious and the Deltas are party animals. Dave Jennings is an English professor who later introduces some of the Deltas to pot. Douglas C. Neidermeyer, an arrogant ROTC officer and Omega member harasses flounder. He orders Flounder to muck his horse’s stables. Bluto and D-Day two of the Deltas help Flounder lead the horse into the office of Dean Wormer, head of the college and give him a gun loaded with blanks. However the horse dies of a heart attack in the office. Bluto starts a food fight in the cafeteria and spies on some sorority girls. The Deltas try to steal the key to a psychology test, but learn the Omegas replaced it with a fake. Boon and Otter, two of the Deltas take Pinto and Flounder to the grocery store and force Pinto to shoplift the food needed for an upcoming toga party. Otter meets Dean Wormer’s wife and invites her to the party. Pinto meets a girl, Clorette who he also invites. At the party Otter and Mrs. Werner have sex, but when Clorette passes out Pinto, after wrestling with his conscience doesn’t molest her and takes her home. The events of the party outrage both Dean Wormer and the Mayor. On November 15, 1962 [57:36 to 1:03:26] a disciplinary hearing held by the Pan-Hellenic Council revokes the charter of ΔΤΧ. The boys then take a road trip to Emily Dickinson College, where they use an outrageous, but effective technique to get dates. The boys take their dates to an African-American roadhouse, and later abandon them there. "Babs" Jansen, an overly perky sorority girl who wants to separate Greg Marmalard, president of Omega from his current girlfriend Mandy Pepperidge, so she can have him for herself tells Greg that Mandy and Otter are having an affair. Boon is devastated to find that Katie, who he has often ignored throughout the film, is having an affair with Professor Jennings.  Otter is lured to a hotel room for a supposed rendezvous with Mandy. Instead a gang of Omegas beats him up. Since their grades are awful, Dean Wormer expels all the Deltas from Faber. The Deltas create a parade float out of Flounders car and attack the homecoming day parade, wreaking havoc. On screen credits reveal what happened to the major characters in the future.

A funny, if over-the-top film. This movie has many genuinely hilarious scenes. However, don’t take it too seriously. It is only wishful thinking on the part of the film’s creators that students with a 0.0 GPA ever become US Senators.  

Date given in film at 1:00:31-33

Producer - Ivan Reitman and Matty Simmons

Director - John Landis

Screenplay - Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney and Chris Miller

Runtime – 1 hour 49 minutes

Released – July 28, 1978

Starring –

John Belushi as John "Bluto" Blutarsky: A drunken degenerate with his own style

Tim Matheson as Eric "Otter" Stratton: A smooth playboy

Peter Riegert as Donald "Boon" Schoenstein: Otter's best friend

Tom Hulce as Lawrence "Pinto" Kroger: A shy but normal fellow

Stephen Furst as Kent "Flounder" Dorfman: An overweight, clumsy pledge

Bruce McGill as Daniel Simpson Day, "D-Day": A tough biker

James Widdoes as Robert Hoover: The affable clean-cut president of the fraternity

Douglas Kenney as "Stork": Delta member 

James Daughton as Gregory "Greg" Marmalard: The president of Omega House

Mark Metcalf as Douglas C. Neidermeyer: An ROTC cadet officer

Kevin Bacon as Chip Diller: A smarmy Omega pledge

John Vernon as Vernon Wormer: Dean of Faber College

Verna Bloom as Marion Wormer: The Dean's alcoholic wife

Donald Sutherland as Professor Dave Jennings: A bored English professor

Karen Allen as Katy: Boon's frustrated girlfriend who has a dalliance with Jennings

Sarah Holcomb as Clorette DePasto: The mayor's 13-year-old daughter

DeWayne Jessie as Otis Day: The leader of the band that plays at the toga party

Mary Louise Weller as Mandy Pepperidge: A cheerleader and sorority girl

Martha Smith as Barbara Sue "Babs" Jansen: A Southern belle who wants Greg

Cesare Danova as Mayor Carmine DePasto: The shady local mayor

Sean McCartin as "Lucky Boy": The Playboy-reading child

Stephen Bishop as Charming Guy with Guitar on stairs at toga party