Accepted
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Theatrical release poster
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| Directed by | Steve Pink |
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| Screenplay by |
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| Story by | Mark Perez |
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| Music by | David Schommer |
| Cinematography | Matthew F. Leonetti |
| Edited by | Scott Hill |
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Release date
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August 18, 2006 |
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Running time
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92 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $23 million |
| Box office | $38.5 million |
| Accepted (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | |
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| Soundtrack album by Various | |
| Released | August 8, 2006 |
| Length | 46:03 |
| Label | Shout Factory |
Accepted is a 2006 American comedy film directed by Steve Pink and written by Adam Cooper, Bill Collage, and Mark Perez. The plot follows a group of high school graduates who create their own fake college after being rejected from the colleges to which they applied. The story takes place in Wickliffe and a fictitious college town called Harmon in Ohio. Filming took place in Los Angeles and Orange in California at Chapman University. This film was later remade in Bollywood as F.A.L.T.U starring Jackky Bhagnani.
Bartleby Gaines (Justin Long) is a persuasive senior from William McKinley High School in Wickliffe, Ohio, who, among other pranks, creates fake IDs. His gifts do not extend to grades, however, and he receives rejection letters from all of the colleges to which he applies, including those with high acceptance rates. In an attempt to gain approval from his strict father (Mark Derwin), Bartleby creates a fake college, the South Harmon Institute of Technology (S.H.I.T.). His best friend, Sherman Schrader III (Jonah Hill), who has been accepted into his father's (Jim O'Heir) prestigious alma mater Harmon College, aids Bartleby and fellow reject Rory Thayer (Maria Thayer), who only applied to Yale University and was rejected due to legacy preferences; "Hands" Holloway (Columbus Short), who lost his athletic scholarship after an injury; and Glen (Adam Herschman), who failed his SAT exam due to vacuity. To make the "college" seem legitimate, Bartleby convinces Sherman to create a functional website for the school.
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