How I Got Into College

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Directed by Savage Steve Holland
Produced by Michael Shamberg

Written by Terrel Seltzer

With: Anthony Edwards, Corey Parker, Lara Flynn Boyle, Finn Carter, Charles Rocket, Christopher Rydell, Gary Owens, Brian Doyle-Murray, Tichina Arnold, Bill Raymond, Philip Baker Hall, Nicolas Coster, Micole Mercurio, Robert Ridgely, Richard Jenkins, Nora Dunn, Phil Hartman, Diane Franklin, Bruce Wagner, Tom Kenny, Taylor Negron, Curtis Armstrong, and Dan Schneider

Cinematography: Robert Elswit
Editing: Kaja Fehr and Sonya Sones Tramer
Music: Joseph Vitarelli

Runtime: 86 min
Release Date: 19 May 1989
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
Color: Color

Last minute replacement director Holland brings little of the charm and humor he generated from his own screenplays to this well cast but stilted comedy about a smart girl and a slacker boy trying to get into a prestigious university.

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A very good film. Most films I see fall in the two- or three-star ranking. I give an extra half-star to three-star films that could end up on the list of the 5000 greatest.

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A good film that fully succeeds at what it sets out to accomplish. Well worth seeing, but less effective than a three-and-a-half stars films and often less consequential than a two-and-a-half star film.

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