DVD Movie Rating for: Old School

Rating 4 out of 5 stars

Movie Plot of: Old School

In Old School, Luke Wilson, Vince Vaughn and Will Ferrell star as 30-somethings who come up with an outlandish scheme to recapture some of their lost youth.

After a particularly bad break up, Mitch (Luke Wilson) needs a new place to live and rents a choice house right next to a college campus.

The idea of returning to their youthful, wild and crazy days sparks a bizarre plan to turn Mitch’s new residence into an off-campus fraternity house, despite having the college Dean, an old and disliked school chum, to contend with

Mitch, Frank and Beanie are disillusioned with their personal lives begining when Mitch's nymphomanic girlfriend, Heidi, cheats on him, then former party animal Frank gets married, but unwilling to get go of his wild life, and Beanie is a family man seeking to reclaim his wild and crazy youth. Beanie suggests that they form their own fraternity in Mitch's new house on a college campus to re-live their glory days by bringing together a variety of misfit college students, losers, middle-aged and elderly retirees as their new friends and later try to avoid being evicted by the new Dean of Students, Pritchard, whom still holds a personal grudge against all three of them.

DVD Production Details of: Old School

Starring: Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell, Leah Remini

Director: Todd Phillips

Studio: Universal Studios

DVD Release Date: June 10, 2003
DVD Features:
Deleted scenes

Bloopers and Outtakes

Inside the Actors Studio spoof

Welcome to Old School

Nominations and Awards--So did we win anything?

Commentary from the stars and director

Widescreen anamorphic format

DVD Easter Eggs

None

Cast of the movie: Old School

• Luke Wilson .... Mitch Martin
• Will Ferrell .... Frank Ricard
• Vince Vaughn .... Bernard 'Beanie' Campbell
• Jeremy Piven .... Dean Gordon Pritchard
• Ellen Pompeo .... Nicole
• Juliette Lewis .... Heidi
• Leah Remini .... Lara Campbell
• Perrey Reeves .... Marissa Jones
• Craig Kilborn .... Mark
• Elisha Cuthbert .... Darcie Springbrook
• Seann William Scott .... Peppers
• Matt Walsh .... Walsh
• Artie Lange .... Booker
• Patrick Fischler .... Michael
• Sara Tanaka .... Megan Huang
• Harve Presnell .... Mr. Springbrook
• Katherine Ellis .... Amy (as Kate Ellis)
• Phe Caplan .... Julie
• Sarah Shahi .... Erica
• Kristen Kerr .... Lisa
• Dan Finnerty .... Wedding Singer
• Gregory Alan Williams .... Therapist (as Greg Alan Williams)
• Ashley Jones .... Tracy the Caterer
• Bryan Callen .... Avi the Waiter
• James Carville .... Himself
• Todd Phillips .... Gang Bang Guy
• Stuart Cornfeld .... Taxi Driver
• Corinne Kingsbury .... Jenny
• Lisa Donatz .... Jeanie
• David Moreland .... Convention Speaker
• Chris Hendrie .... Priest
• Rachel Winfree .... Archer's Wife
• Nathalie Fay .... Mindy
• Kristina Hughes .... Naked Woman
• Nicholas Hosking .... Naked Man
• Sara Bryan .... Amanda
• Sydney Bryan .... Amanda
• Noel Gugliemi .... Student #1 (as Noel Guglielmi)
• Robert Baker .... Student #2
• Bob Lazar .... Marissa's Dad
• Arthur Taxier .... Professor
• Darryl Armbruster .... The Dan Band
• Gene Reed .... The Dan Band
• David Arana .... The Dan Band
• David Hughes .... The Dan Band
• Marc Thaldorf .... The Dan Band
• Jimi Englund .... The Dan Band
• Snoop Dogg .... Himself
• Warren G. .... Himself
• The Bishop Don Magic Juan .... Himself (as Archbishop Don Magic Juan)
• Jerry 'Mr. Kane' Long .... Himself
• Patrick Cranshaw .... Blue
• Jerod Mixon .... Weensie
• Rick Gonzalez .... Spanish
• Matthew Carey .... Hatch
• Simon Helberg .... Jerry
• Abdul Goznobi .... Abdul
• Eddie Pepitone .... Archer
• Rob Corddry .... Warren (as Robert Corddry)
• Charles Noland .... Beav
• Raymond Ma .... Mr. Ma
• Jesse Heiman .... Budnick
• José Gonzales .... Gonzo
• Patrick Adams .... Patch
• Jake Jarvi .... Jarvi
• Ellen Cleghorne .... Trustee (uncredited)
• Candice Cook .... College Student (uncredited)
• Andy Dick .... Garry, oral sex instructor (uncredited)
• Amos Goss .... Pledge (uncredited)
• Josephine Hinds .... Church Organist (uncredited)
• Terry O'Quinn .... Goldberg (uncredited)
• Jami Philbrick .... Marissa's Brother (uncredited)
• Erin Rose .... College Student (uncredited)
• Dina Rosenmeier .... College Student (uncredited)
• Robert Scheid .... College Student (uncredited)
• David Michael White .... Bull Pen Pledge (uncredited)

Photo Gallery of the movie: Old School

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Old School - Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell, Juliette Lewis, Leah Remini (2003)

Reviews of the movie: Old School

When three thirtysomething friends with woman troubles (Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell, and Vince Vaughn) decide to form a fraternity, it's supposedly to save Wilson from losing his house, which the nearby college is trying to claim for academic purposes. But really, Ferrell and Vaughn are desperate to return to the reckless, feckless days of beer bongs and hot chicks, and they drag Wilson along with them as they throw themselves into gathering frat pledges of all ages. Old School could have been just another string of bad jokes hanging on a flimsy plot, but the script and the cast have a jovial energy and just enough grounding in reality--at least, up until the obligatory beat-the-system ending, but by that point you'll forgive the excesses of this silly, cheerful, and frequently funny movie. Featuring Jeremy Piven and Juliette Lewis, with cameos by Snoop Dog, Andy Dick, and others.

ollowing in a long tradition of college comedies that stretches back, believe it or not, beyond the memory of pretty much anyone living, comes this movie which has a pretty good concept but doesn't exploit the comedic or filmic possibilities enough to make it a good film. My friend and I saw this movie at the drive-in theater in Sacramento, CA, and we were in a proper state of mind for a film of this type, so it did sustain our interest fairly well. There were one or two really funny scenes, mostly thanks to Ferrell.

Artie Lang -- were you really in this movie? I think you had, like, one line.

There were a lot of people in this movie -- Vince Vaughn, Juliette Lewis, Craig Kilborn -- who I could really say "what are you doing in this movie?" I know what Artie Lang and Jeremy Piven are doing in this movie, they have nothing else to do!