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Summary: Bartleby (B.) Gaines is a fun loving slacker who, unfortunately, gets turned down for every college he applied for, much to the chagrin of his overly expectant parents. So, with a little cutting and pasting, he creates the South Harmon Institute of Technology, and lo and behold, he is accepted (along with his friends Rory, Hands, and Glen, whose college plans were also all but dashed). However, his parents want to see the website, the campus, and the dean. So now he has his other friend Sherman (who has been accepted to the prestigious Harmon College) build a web page, they lease out an abandoned psychiatric hospital, and they hire Sherman's uncle Ben to be the dean. Problem solved? Not quite. The web page was done so well, that hundreds of students show up at the front door, all of which were turned down by other colleges. Faced with no choice, Bartleby decides to proceed with turning South Harmon into a real college, and sets about figuring out what to teach and how to teach it. Meanwhile at Harmon, dean Van Horne meets with Hoyt Ambrose, a rich law student and head of the KBE fraternity (which Sherman is trying to become a member of), to discuss building a gateway for Harmon using land presently being used by South Harmon. He tries finding the leaseholder of the land, to no avail. Meanwhile, his girlfriend, Monica, catches him cheating on her, and a big party at South Harmon lures a chunk of Harmon's students away, including Monica into the arms of Bartleby. Now Hoyt uses Sherman, knowing he has been bouncing between the two schools, in an attempt to bring South Harmon down for good. However, Bartleby has an accreditation appointment with the state Board of Education to prove South Harmon's worthiness. Can he legally bring the South Harmon Institute of Technology to life and win the love of Monica?
Runtime: 90 min
Rating: Rated PG-13 for language, sexual material and drug content.
Production: Universal Pictures
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Language: English
Home Release Date: Nov 14, 2006
Director Credit
Steve Pink Director
Writer Credit
Adam Cooper Screenplay
Bill Collage Screenplay
Mark Perez Story
Principal Cast Credit
Blake Lively Monica Moreland
Jonah Hill Sherman Schrader
Justin Long Bartleby Gaines
Cast Credit
Adam Herschman Glen
Ann Cusack Diane Gaines
Anthony Heald Dean Richard Van Horne
Columbus Short Daryl 'Hands' Holloway
Hannah Marks Lizzie Gaines
Jeremy Howard Freaky Student
Joe Hursley Maurice/The Ringers
Lewis Black Ben Lewis
Maria Thayer Rory Thayer
Mark Derwin Jack Gaines
Robin Taylor Abernathy Darwin Dunlap
Sam Horrigan Mike Welsh
Producer Credit
Amanda Morgan Palmer Associate Producer
Brian Lutz Executive Producer
Jason Wilson Associate Producer
Jonathan Watson Associate Producer
Louis G. Friedman Executive Producer
Mark Perez Executive Producer
Michael Bostick Producer
Tom Shadyac Producer
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