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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Matthew C

@RT23791614 Jul 16

This movie encapsulates the overly sensitive division of college kids in the nineties. PCU should rank up there with Animal House as a classic college movie displaying what college life in a certain time period in American history was like. The funny thing is I feel like that PCU has slipped away into obscurity because of its comedic take on certain delicate topics that seem to have been more accepted in todays society. "Can you show me where the pampers is"

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Tee B

@RT11356989 Jul 2

Blow me where the pampers is.

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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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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)