NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE
Directed by John Landis
Screenplay by Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney and Chris Miller
Before National Lampoon's Animal House, no one ever had the guts to make an honest movie about college life. From Good News to Love Story, from Campus Confidential to The Paper Chase, Hollywood has chosen to regard the campus as a haven for earnest young lovers, gung-ho jocks, inspirational professors and tortured class losers. Animal House, a riotous farce set at fictional Faber College in 1962, presents quite another picture. The film's so-called animals—the inhabitants of Faber's...