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Revenge of the Nerds is a 1984 American comedy film directed by Jeff Kanew and written by Steve Zacharias and Jeff Buhai. The film stars Robert Carradine, Anthony Edwards, Ted McGinley, and Bernie Casey. Set at the fictional Adams College, the film follows a group of socially awkward students who form their own fraternity to counter ongoing harassment from the dominant Alpha Beta fraternity and its sister sorority,…
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Released in 1984 and directed by Jeff Kanew, Revenge of the Nerds became one of the defining college comedies of the decade. It takes the classic underdog formula and runs it through the loud, exaggerated style of eighties comedy. Some parts absolutely feel dated now, and there is no avoiding that, but the film still has a charm that makes it memorable. The story follows Lewis Skolnick and Gilbert Lowe, two incoming…More
The difference between reality and Hollywood fiction appears to be the clearest in films dealing with students’ life at American institutions of higher learning. While very few films try to depict hard studying and none seems to be dealing with soul-crushing issues of student debt, majority tends to portray life of American college and university students as an endless party. This perception was firmly established i…More
