Here we are with the first of the A's! If you thought Z went by really quickly, don't worry. There's still one more left but I'm saving it to watch with Christy.This is one of the better ones from her collection. It's not one that I would own but it was a passable diversion.
Bartleby Gaines (Justin Long) gets rejected from every college he applied for his senior year. To avoid the embarassment of telling his family he didn't get into college, he and his friend Sherman (Jonah Hill) decide to create the fake South Harmon Institute of Technology. Things snowball after the fake website generates a very real student body. Bartleby and his friends decide to try a college experience where the courses are determined by what students actually want to learn as opposed to what other people think they need. Their idyll is jeopardized by the greedy Dean of a real university (Anthony Heald) who wants to raze the abandoned mental hospital they've colonized and turn it into a memorial park for himself.
This might be the only movie I've seen where Blake Lively isn't a total waste of screen time. Granted, her role as the love interest is paper-thin so there's not really a lot of room for error but she still seemed believable as the bubbleheaded blonde who gets disillusioned with the "popular" guy.
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