• Source: How I Got into College

      • How I Got Into College is a 1989 American romantic comedy film directed by Savage Steve Holland, starring Anthony Edwards, Corey Parker and Lara Flynn Boyle, and produced and released by 20th Century Fox. This is the film debut of eventual voice actor Tom Kenny, who would become best known as the voice of SpongeBob SquarePants.


      Plot


      The story follows two high school seniors from Michigan on their quest to get into Ramsey College, a small college in Pennsylvania: popular and talented Jessica, and unnoticed underachiever Marlon. Jessica wants to break free of both her high school image and her family's near-maniacal devotion to the University of Michigan, while Marlon simply wants to go to whatever college Jessica is going to because he's completely in love with her. Jessica and Marlon go from being in completely different orbits to slowly becoming friends and then romantic interests for each other. The battle lines at Ramsey are drawn between a priggish administrator named Leo who wants to make SAT scores the entire arbiter of who gets in, and good hearted Ramsey alums-turned-Admissions officers Kip and Nina, who feel that SAT scores are important but not the whole or even the main story behind any applicants. Side stories involve two African-American high school seniors in Detroit (one a natural leader whose father died when she was younger, the other a very talented football player whose desire to expand his intellectual horizons is ignored by everyone), Marlon's college-eschewing best friend Oliver, a conniving pair of untalented "SAT tutors", and the battle between Leo and Kip/Nina to get a great class of students to Ramsey.


      Cast


      Corey Parker as Marlon Browne
      Lara Flynn Boyle as Jessica Kailo
      Anthony Edwards as Kip Hammett
      Finn Carter as Nina Sachie
      Charles Rocket as Leo Whitman
      Christopher Rydell as Oliver
      Brian Doyle-Murray as Coach Evans
      O-Lan Jones as Sall O'Connor
      Tichina Arnold as Vera Cook
      Bruce Wagner as "A"
      Tom Kenny as "B"
      Bill Raymond as Flutter
      Philip Baker Hall as Dean Patterson
      Nicolas Coster as Dr. Phillip Jellinak Sr.
      Richard Jenkins as Bill Browne
      Phil Hartman as Bennedict
      Nora Dunn as Francine Bauer
      Duane Davis as Ronny "Sure Hands" Rawlson
      Diane Franklin as Sharon Browne
      Robert Ridgely as George Kailo
      Micole Mercurio as Betty Kailo
      Bill Henderson as Detroit High School Coach
      Richard Steven Horvitz as Young Energizer
      Curtis Armstrong as Arcadia Bible Academy Recruiter
      Taylor Negron as Mailman


      Production


      Jan Eliasberg started directing but was fired five days into filming and replaced with Savage Steve Holland. Production on the film commenced in February 1988, actress Lara Flynn Boyle left production briefly in March 1988 to film reshoots for the ending of Poltergeist III.


      Reception




      = Critical response

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      The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes has rated it at 50%.


      = Box office

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      The film was a box office bomb, making just $651,850 in its opening weekend from 743 theaters for an average of $877 per venue. It ended its run with only $1,642,239 domestically.


      References




      External links


      How I Got Into College at IMDb
      How I Got Into College at AllMovie
      How I Got Into College at Box Office Mojo
      How I Got Into College at Rotten Tomatoes

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