<p>With Honors</p>
<p>Three in the Attic! A great movie from 1969. Takes place at my alma mater - “Williard College”. A preppy guy named Paxton Quigley the Third (I named my college dog after him) has sex with three different women from the neighboring college (supposed to be Bennington), they all find out about it, kidnap him, lock him in the attic, feed him only yoghurt, and try to sex him to death.</p>
<p>One of the all time classics, but not sure if it was high school or university - Tea and Sympathy</p>
<p>I believe, but my memory may be wrong, that Three in the Attic was shot in Chapel Hill and at UNC. I recall a very, very minor scandel because there is nudity in the film.</p>
<p>Everybody’s All American (Jessica Lange and Dennis Quaid).</p>
<p>In Good Company - Dennis Quaid, Scartlett Johannsen, Topher Grace</p>
<p>Dennis Quaid plays a great “helicopter parent” to his daughter at NYU.</p>
<p>One for my D’s alma mater: PCU (No, really!)</p>
<p>The all time great for How to Get into an Ivy League School: Risky Business!</p>
<p>“I believe, but my memory may be wrong, that Three in the Attic was shot in Chapel Hill and at UNC. I recall a very, very minor scandel because there is nudity in the film.”</p>
<p>Correct! There was also a take-off of the movie called “Up in the Cellar”, with Larry Hagman as a college prez.</p>
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<p>Amazing movie and soundtrack. </p>
<p>I second PCU, Risky Business, The Graduate.</p>
<p>Where was PCU filmed/modeled after, garland?</p>
<p>I forgot about “The Freshman,” starring Matthew Broderick and Marlon Brando - I don’t know how well it’s aged, but I enjoyed it a lot at the time. Broderick plays a freshman film major (at NYU, I think) and Brando does a hugely funny takeoff on himself as Don Corleone - and even ice skates a bit. I’m going to try to find this somewhere.</p>
<p>Bopping around IMDB, I noticed that Ronald Reagan appeared as a professor in a couple of college movies, most memorably “Bedtime for Bonzo” but also “She’s Working Her Way through College,” a musical about a burlesque dancer. So many films had a college setting in the 1930s-1960s - it’s interesting to see how they portray college life. 23-skidoo!</p>
<p>And then there’s American Graffitti … supposed to be the <em>night before</em> leaving for college.</p>
<p>Hey - on Turner Classic Movies right now - “The Affairs of Dobie Gillis,” set sometime in the 1950s at “Grainbelt University.” Starring Bobby Van, Bob Fosse, and Debbie Reynolds (with that cast, I hope there’s some dancing). Unfortunately, work calls.</p>
<p>DRAb–PCU was “modeled” after Wesleyan, and a few location shots were filmed there. FWIW, they took it very well, and I think it only satirizes a small segment of the school–the activists I’ve met there are not anything like the ones shown, though I’m sure there are plenty who were.</p>
<p>Rudy is a great movie about a poor kid who has been told his whole life he is not bright enough for great achievement. His incredible determination (and friendship with a tutor who recognizes his dyslexia) enables him to transfer to his dream school, Notre Dame. It is a lovely movie that explores class boundaries, interracial friendship, and dysfunctional family dynamics. It will inspire anyone who needs to overcome great odds. Oh, and he makes the football team as a walk-on. Vince Vaughn plays one of the ND gridiron stars.</p>
<p>Breaking Away is great. I saw the Freshman again recently & it still holds up well. Paper Chase is also fantastic.</p>
<p>The Skulls was a fun movie which H, S and I happened on several years ago. It might really be only tangentially “about college”, but it is a thinly veiled treatment of Yale’s Skull and Bones society. A thoroughly gripping flick.</p>
<p>For my money The Paper Chase is tops in the “college” film genre, although I guess it’s really about law school.</p>
<p>StickerShock, I LOVE Rudy. Such a great movie…he was truly a hero.</p>
<p>Old School with Will Ferrell</p>
<p>The Freshman was fabulous for two reasons - one, Brando caricatures himself as the Godfather - hilarious and absolutely brilliant. And the Komodo dragon scenes in the shopping mall were wonderful!</p>
<p>(But it is a comedy)</p>
<p>“Where the Boys Are” a classic movie about college students on Spring Break with Yvette Mimieux, Jim Hutton (sigh), George Hamilton, and Connie Francis.</p>
<p>on a more serious note “Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story” was a pretty good TV movie.</p>