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Movie: Animal House

Date: 1978

Category: Classic

Director: John Landis

Big Stars: John Belushi, Tom Hulce, Tim Matheson

The grandfather of the modern college fraternity movie, Animal House was the first outing for the writers of the comedy magazine, The National Lampoon.

The basic story is about the conflict between Dean Vernon Wormer (John Vernon) who is allied with certain members of Omega House, against Delta House, the worst fraternity on campus. It is the Dean's goal to rid the campus of Delta House. The story opens during pledge week. Larry Kroger (Hulce) and Kent Dorfman (Stephan Furst) are making the rounds of the college fraternities. At the Delta House, they find John "Bluto" Blutarsky (Belushi) urinating in the front yard. Kroger and Dorfman are soon accepted into the Delta fraternity. Toga parties, road trips, panty raids and revenge against the Omegas follow.

This is the movie that single-handidly got more people to join a fraternity than any other movie. Animal House is also the template for many other films in the genre and was an immediate success in 1978.