<p>If we can add TV shows, season 4 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer has Buffy enrolled at UC Sunnydale. It has a pretty good send up of college life. "</p>
<p>Buffy: Want beer. Like beer. Beer good.
Xander: Beer bad. Bad, bad beer.</p>
<p>My son watched it this year in his English class and came home amazed that “Wilson” had a life before “House.”</p>
<p>He should watch Much Ado about Nothing ( Denzel Washington & Kenneth Branaugh version)
[Much</a> Ado About Nothing (1993) - Full cast and crew](<a href=“Much Ado About Nothing (1993) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb”>Much Ado About Nothing (1993) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb)
Robert Sean Leonard plays Claudio.</p>
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<p>In that case “Undeclared” is the best written, most realistic TV show about college…but still a comedy. Since the OP started this discussion with “The Paper Chase”, that was also a good show (about HLS) with the late, great John Houseman reprising his movie role.</p>
<p>Robert Sean Leonard was also in The Last Days of Disco, a Whit Stillman movie. I love Whit Stillman. Come to think of it, his first movie was about college students in New York on Christmas vacation: Metropolitan. I highly recommend it.</p>
<p>The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996) - kind of a dumb movie about two Columbia professors, but lots of gorgeous footage shot on the Morningside Heights campus.</p>
<p>Also, not sure anyone pointed it out above, but don’t forget that The Paper Chase was made into a decent TV series (1978-1986) that featured John Houseman reprising his role as Professor Kingsfield.</p>
<p>I love Metropolitan, too…I thought most of those kids were in private school, but it’s a fine line–and it all takes place over vacation, anyway. Diner is another Christmas-week comedy/drama about recent grads/law students, circa 1959.</p>
<p>Let’s face it, there aren’t a lot of films that have as many classroom scenes as The Paper Chase.</p>
<p>Isn’t Dustin Hoffman a student in “Marathon Man?”</p>
<p>My first thought was “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”.</p>
<p>“21,” and on the topic of professors gone bad, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf”</p>
<p>Good Will Hunting -MIT
Educating Rita- Michael Caine
Something the Lord Made-Vanderbilt</p>
<p>Chariots of Fire–Cambridge 1920s
(Cambridge scenes were actually filmed at Eton College.)</p>
<p>Kitty, I believe that ‘Something the Lord Made’ depicted research and discovery at Johns Hopkins University.</p>
<p>It’s a comedy and there are a few silly moments, but Back to School with Rodney Dangerfield ( 1986) has some beautiful footage of U. Of Wisconsin,classroom and campus scenes, and some serious parts , too. It’s about a wealthy, but uneducated father who never did well in school but goes on go become a huge success in men’s clothing ( big and tall stores). He goes back to college, both for himself and in order to help his son have a better college experience.</p>
<p>^^^with the inimitable Sam Kinison as the most intense movie professor since Kingsfield.</p>
<p>If we can drift this thread to silly comedies, I’ll throw out the inane “P.C.U.”, loosely based on Wesleyan.</p>
<p>OP here
Well this thread has become a classic CC “ask and you shall receive”. Thanks so much for all the great suggestions and please be assured that I am reading them all, making a list… and have a lot of viewing ahead ;)</p>
<p>Please carry on, I am getting some great ideas and suggestions for friends, as well.</p>
<p>If we’re ignoring the constraints given by the OP, then we have to mention “The Social Network” in which the campus of Johns Hopkins pretended to be Harvard.</p>
<p>“Jim Thorpe - All American” starring Burt Lancaster. Carlisle.</p>