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P.C.U.

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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.

Critics Reviews

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Nell Minow Movie Mom 06/26/2003
3/5
Surprisingly funny. Go to Full Review
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times 01/01/2000
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. Go to Full Review
David Nusair Reel Film Reviews 05/25/2024
3/4
...quite watchable and often legitimately funny... Go to Full Review
Stephen Silver The SS Ben Hecht 04/26/2024
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) Go to Full Review
Chase Burns The Stranger (Seattle, WA) 12/09/2021
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. Go to Full Review
Scott Weinberg DVDTalk.com 07/25/2006
3/5
Take Piven out of the equation and it'd be a whole lot uglier. Go to Full Review
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Audience Reviews

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Michael O. @OLDBRICKM Oct 19 Another awesome banned film. They don't want you to watch this so you won't find it anywhere. i got the dvd so I'm all set! See more Jason K Feb 3 If you haven't seen it in 15+ years like me...u know how great this masterpiece was there is many good reasons to need to binge watch this in 2025....too bad I can't get it anywhere I miss my VHS copy See more Bob S 10/07/2024 This classic gets more relevant by the day. An absolute MUST SEE. See more Eric F 06/14/2024 I remember first seeing this movie in 1997 or 1998. I rented the tape in a Blockbuster with a few friends and we had a lot of laughs. It became one of the main sources of quotes for us, but I never watched it again until yesterday. I always remembered it as "that cool college movie with George Clinton". Seeing it again for the first time in over 20 years was a whole different experience. Not only it brought back so many memories, but the world as we are now makes this movies feels like reading ancient prophecies that came true! What was over the top in colleges in the 1990's looks so little compared to what we have today. Another big change is that what we see in PCU was kinda restricted to college cities, but now with social media it feels like that kind of stuff is everywhere, from older people working to young high school kids. The cast is great and the soundtrack is even better, but what really makes it shine it's the script. You would never see something like this made today, but now MORE THAN EVER it is what we need! See more Gareth W 08/02/2023 As time goes on this imagined over exaggeration gradually becomes more and more representative of modern left wing activists. Rather amusing that yesterdays idea of comedy is todays reality. See more Gary G 05/14/2023 If you aren't sensitive and or too high minded, this movie is awesome. Wish it was streaming somewhere. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

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)