OUR WORD TO PARENTS: The following is a quick look at the content found in this R-rated comedy. (Note: The "Our Take" review of this title examines the film's artistic merits and does not take into account any of the possibly objectionable material listed below).
EMILY RUTHERFORD plays a sorority sister who assists Richard is his attempts to undermine Van.Ĭurious if this title is entertaining, any good, and/or has any artistic merit?.TECK HOLMES plays a friend of Van's who does drugs and uses strong profanity.TIM MATHESON plays Van's wealthy father who's disappointed to learn that his son is still in college and thus withdraws his tuition money.TOM EVERETT SCOTT plays the newspaper editor who assigns Gwen to do the story on Van.He uses strong profanity, has sex with Gwen and another girl and tries to ruin Van's reputation. DANIEL COSGROVE plays a fraternity official and Gwen's boyfriend who becomes jealous of Van.He uses some strong profanity and assists Van in his various schemes. KAL PENN plays an exchange student from India who's a virgin and wants to learn about oral sex and intercourse.TARA REID plays a reporter for the school paper who's assigned to do a story on Van and finds herself falling for him and losing interest in her pretentious boyfriend, Richard (with whom she has sex).
When his father learns that and then withdraws his college tuition, Van comes up with various interesting ways to raise money.
Accordingly, he's been one for the past seven years. RYAN REYNOLDS plays a popular student who'd rather stay in college than graduate.WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: R For strong sexual content, gross humor, language and some drug content. WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT? Those who are fans of someone in the cast, National Lampoon's comedic material, or gross out comedies probably will. Accordingly, Van and his friends then set out to raise the money needed for him to stay in school, all while dealing with Richard and his minion, Jeannie (EMILY RUTHERFORD), who set out to undermine his efforts and reputation, particularly when Gwen starts to like Van better than Richard. Yet, Van has bigger concerns than that as his wealthy father, Vance Wilder (TIM MATHESON), has withdrawn his tuition money after learning his son is still going to college. Van agrees to let her do that story and calls it a date despite her having a boyfriend in the form of Richard Bagg (DANIEL COSGROVE), an elitist fraternity president. Van's reputation is so great that the school's newspaper editor, Elliot (TOM EVERETT SCOTT), assigns one of his reporters, Gwen (TARA REID), to do a story on him. He decides on Taj (KAL PENN), a foreign exchange student whose goal is to lose his virginity, and the two are soon hanging out with Van's other friend, Hutch (TECK HOLMES).
Thus, when he decides he needs an assistant, all sorts of people try out for the position. PLOT: Van Wilder (RYAN REYNOLDS) is the most popular student at Coolidge College, which shouldn't come as a surprise since he's been there for seven years and counting.
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When the city elected to extend Oakland Avenue to the north in 1925, thereby disrupting the Swans’ land, the residence was “sawed in half and gently but firmly moved to a new location and reestablished,” per a February 1949 “Pasadena Star-News” article.QUICK TAKE: Comedy: After his father cuts off his tuition money, a popular, 7-year college student must figure out how to raise the money needed to stay in school. In what seems to be a somewhat common occurrence with historic residences that have appeared onscreen, the Swan House was originally located in a different spot entirely! The manse initially stood about four miles southeast, on the corner of East Colorado Boulevard and Oakland Avenue in Pasadena. According to the Altadena Blog, the home, initially named “Torrington Place,” was “the first commission the Greene brothers received that was not for a family member, and they had to cater to the whims of their client.” The Star-News understatedly refers to the place, which you can see an early photo of here, as a “fine two-story and attic home.” During her tenure there, Frances transformed the attic into a recreation and music room, where she regularly hosted society and charity events. Originally designed in a Georgian style with Victorian detailing, the property is markedly different from the Craftsman bungalows the Greenes are most famous for proliferating. The dwelling, located at 2162 North Holliston in Altadena, is one of the earliest examples of the Greene brothers’ work on the West Coast! Completed in 1899, the Swan House was commissioned by wealthy Chicagoan James Swan and his wife, Frances.