P.C.U.

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P.C.U.

PG-13

1994

1h 19m

Comedy

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Nervous high school senior Tom Lawrence (Chris Young) visits Port Chester University, where he gets a taste of politically correct college life when he's guided by fraternity wild man Droz (Jeremy Piven) and his housemates at The Pit. But Droz and his pals have rivals in nasty preppy Rand McPherson (David Spade) and the school's steely president (Jessica Walter). With their house threatened with expulsion, Droz and company decide to throw a raging party where the various factions will collide.

Nell Minow

Movie Mom

06/26/2003

3/5

Surprisingly funny.

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

01/01/2000

2/4

PCU is a fertile movie, filled with the beginnings of good ideas and promising scenes. But somehow everything seems truncated; there's not the kind of follow-through that takes a funny situation and builds on it until the laughs begin to pyramid.

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

05/25/2024

3/4

...quite watchable and often legitimately funny...

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Stephen Silver

The SS Ben Hecht

04/26/2024

3/5

It is a comedy that demonstrates that every op-ed about college kids going way, way too far, is based on very old ideas. (30th anniversary)

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Chase Burns

The Stranger (Seattle, WA)

12/09/2021

Defining what the film stands for is harder than defining what it stands against. It's anti-vegan, anti-feminist, anti-Black, anti-queer, and also-here's the overlooked part-pointedly anti-fascist.

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Scott Weinberg

DVDTalk.com

07/25/2006

3/5

Take Piven out of the equation and it'd be a whole lot uglier.

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Christopher C.

@PapaTangooo May 16

This movie made me want to go to college.

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Michael O.

@OLDBRICKM Oct 19

Another awesome banned film. They don't want you to watch this so you won't find it anywhere. i got the dvd so I'm all set!

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Jason K

@RT12957218 02/03/2025

If you haven't seen it in 15+ years like me...u know how great this masterpiece was there is many good reasons to need to binge watch this in 2025....too bad I can't get it anywhere I miss my VHS copy

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Bob S

@RT42864272 10/07/2024

This classic gets more relevant by the day. An absolute MUST SEE.

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Eric F

@eric35007 06/14/2024

I remember first seeing this movie in 1997 or 1998. I rented the tape in a Blockbuster with a few friends and we had a lot of laughs. It became one of the main sources of quotes for us, but I never watched it again until yesterday. I always remembered it as "that cool college movie with George Clinton". Seeing it again for the first time in over 20 years was a whole different experience. Not only it brought back so many memories, but the world as we are now makes this movies feels like reading ancient prophecies that came true! What was over the top in colleges in the 1990's looks so little compared to what we have today. Another big change is that what we see in PCU was kinda restricted to college cities, but now with social media it feels like that kind of stuff is everywhere, from older people working to young high school kids. The cast is great and the soundtrack is even better, but what really makes it shine it's the script. You would never see something like this made today, but now MORE THAN EVER it is what we need!

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Gareth W

@373Gareth 08/02/2023

As time goes on this imagined over exaggeration gradually becomes more and more representative of modern left wing activists. Rather amusing that yesterdays idea of comedy is todays reality.

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Synopsis

Nervous high school senior Tom Lawrence (Chris Young) visits Port Chester University, where he gets a taste of politically correct college life when he's guided by fraternity wild man Droz (Jeremy Piven) and his housemates at The Pit. But Droz and his pals have rivals in nasty preppy Rand McPherson (David Spade) and the school's steely president (Jessica Walter). With their house threatened with expulsion, Droz and company decide to throw a raging party where the various factions will collide.

Director: Hart Bochner
Producer: Paul Schiff
Screenwriter: Adam Leff, Zak Penn
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Production Co: 20th Century Fox
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 29, 1994, Original
Release Date (DVD): Sep 2, 2003
Box Office (Gross USA): $4.3M
Runtime: 1h 19m
Sound Mix: Stereo, Dolby SR, Surround
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)