P.C.U.

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P.C.U.

PG-13,

1994,

1h 19m,

Comedy

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17 Reviews

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10,000+ Ratings

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75%

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Nervous high school senior Tom Lawrence (Chris Young) visits Port Chester University, where he gets a taste of politically correct college life when he's guided by fraternity wild man Droz (Jeremy Piven) and his housemates at The Pit. But Droz and his pals have rivals in nasty preppy Rand McPherson (David Spade) and the school's steely president (Jessica Walter). With their house threatened with expulsion, Droz and company decide to throw a raging party where the various factions will collide.

Nell Minow

Movie Mom

Jun 26, 2003

3/5

Surprisingly funny.

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Jan 1, 2000

2/4

PCU is a fertile movie, filled with the beginnings of good ideas and promising scenes. But somehow everything seems truncated; there's not the kind of follow-through that takes a funny situation and builds on it until the laughs begin to pyramid.

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

May 25, 2024

3/4

...quite watchable and often legitimately funny...

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Stephen Silver

The SS Ben Hecht

Apr 26, 2024

3/5

It is a comedy that demonstrates that every op-ed about college kids going way, way too far, is based on very old ideas. (30th anniversary)

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Chase Burns

The Stranger (Seattle, WA)

Dec 9, 2021

Defining what the film stands for is harder than defining what it stands against. It's anti-vegan, anti-feminist, anti-Black, anti-queer, and also-here's the overlooked part-pointedly anti-fascist.

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Scott Weinberg

DVDTalk.com

Jul 25, 2006

3/5

Take Piven out of the equation and it'd be a whole lot uglier.

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George M

Dec 1, 2018

Ahead of its time comedy.

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Hart Bochner

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Jeremy Piven

James 'Droz' Andrews

Chris Young

Tom Lawrence

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David Spade

Rand McPherson

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Synopsis

Nervous high school senior Tom Lawrence (Chris Young) visits Port Chester University, where he gets a taste of politically correct college life when he's guided by fraternity wild man Droz (Jeremy Piven) and his housemates at The Pit. But Droz and his pals have rivals in nasty preppy Rand McPherson (David Spade) and the school's steely president (Jessica Walter). With their house threatened with expulsion, Droz and company decide to throw a raging party where the various factions will collide.

Director: Hart Bochner
Producer: Paul Schiff
Screenwriter: Adam Leff, Zak Penn
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Production Co: 20th Century Fox
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 29, 1994, Original
Release Date (DVD): Sep 2, 2003
Box Office (Gross USA): $4.3M
Runtime: 1h 19m
Sound Mix: Stereo, Dolby SR, Surround
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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