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  • 2012
  • PG-13
  • Warner Bros. Digital Distribution
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 2012
  • PG-13
  • Warner Bros. Digital Distribution
  • 1 h 34 m

Summary Levi Collins is set to go to the local University on a tennis scholarship, but he forgot to tell his parents one thing – he didn’t graduate. As a result, he must take summer school before his mom and dad discover he’s failed senior science. At school, Levi falls in love with his classmate, Katie, and learns that he has to make a choice ...

Directed By: Tom Morris

Written By: Elliot Feld, Jaz Kalkat, Tom Morris

  • 2012
  • PG-13
  • Warner Bros. Digital Distribution
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 2012
  • PG-13
  • Warner Bros. Digital Distribution
  • 1 h 34 m

General Education

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary Levi Collins is set to go to the local University on a tennis scholarship, but he forgot to tell his parents one thing – he didn’t graduate. As a result, he must take summer school before his mom and dad discover he’s failed senior science. At school, Levi falls in love with his classmate, Katie, and learns that he has to make a choice ...

Directed By: Tom Morris

Written By: Elliot Feld, Jaz Kalkat, Tom Morris

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33
Aug 22, 2012
The film owes a lot to "Napoleon Dynamite," though it could have borrowed more of the underlying sweetness of Jared Hess' film, and less of other things, like its eyebrow-raising treatment of race.
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Aug 30, 2012
General Education is kind of like a science-fair project slapped together at the last minute -- a sad, withered potato pierced with copper wires, rotting on the counter next to a resplendent baking-soda volcano. You can't help but feel a little sorry for the poor spud.
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Aug 23, 2012
Among the problems with the humorless comedy General Education is that the lead character's sister is more interesting than he is, and she spends much of her screen time as a mute mime.
By Neil Genzlinger FULL REVIEW
25
Aug 23, 2012
Wavers between extreme silliness and unbearable earnestness.
By Lou Lumenick FULL REVIEW
20
Aug 23, 2012
As generic and forgettable as its title, this half-hearted attempt at a teen comedy feels like a term paper you might buy online: poorly written and cribbed from a million other sources.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
12
Aug 19, 2012
Too derivative to be amusing and too earnest to be parodic, it assumes the form of countless other teen comedies minus any wit or drama.
By Nick Schager FULL REVIEW

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Production Company 870 Films, Pelican House Productions
Release Date Aug 24, 2012
Duration 1 h 34 m
Rating PG-13
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Website http://www.generaleducationmovie.com/
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Awards

Newport Beach Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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