
After being rejected from every college he applied, Bartleby Gaines decided to create a fictitious university, South Harmon Institute of Technology, with his friends, to fool their parents. But when their deception works too well and every other college rejects starts to apply to his school, B. must find a way to give the education and future his students and friends deserves, including his own, while trying to win the heart of the girl next door.... (Full plot summary below)
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After being rejected from every college he applied, Bartleby Gaines decided to create a fictitious university, South Harmon Institute of Technology, with his friends, to fool their parents. But when their deception works too well and every other college rejects starts to apply to his school, B. must find a way to give the education and future his students and friends deserves, including his own, while trying to win the heart of the girl next door.
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| Associated PressChristy LemireNone of them will teach you anything you didn't already know -- but at least you'll have a good time until class is dismissed. |
| FromTheBalconyBill ClarkAccepted may seem tired and monotonous topically, but it is also proof positive that a solid leading comic performance can take an otherwise ho-hum premise and cruise it to victory. |
| Las Vegas Review-JournalCarol Cling... any movie that advocates individuality and rejection of conformity can't be all bad -- especially one from that bastion of soulless conformity, Hollywood. |
| Christian Science MonitorM. K. TerrellSophomoric doesn't begin to describe the humor (most of the characters are freshmen after all), but you may find some laughs in spite of yourself. |
| Film BlatherEugene NovikovAccepted has the ideas and the energy to be a college classic in the vein of Animal House and Old School, but it doesn't have the comic juice. |
| FilmJerk.comBrian OrndorfWhile his 28 year-old face has a hard time passing for a teenager, Long's gusto for the role really gives the film oomph when it needs it the most. |
| Reel.comTimothy KnightAlthough it's more amusing than laugh-out-loud funny, Accepted has a good-natured irreverence and ragged charm, thanks to a spirited ensemble cast of newcomers led by Justin Long. |
| San Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubIf you can lighten up for an hour and a half, the film delivers one good laugh after another. |
| Aisle SeatMike McGranaghanThink about it too much and the whole thing falls apart; sit back, relax, and don't analyze it and the movie is pretty darn entertaining. |
| Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)Jeffrey WesthoffYou have to cheer a film that chooses the Ramones' "Blitzkrieg Bop" as its anthem and not something by Matchbox 20. |