National Lampoons Animal House Quotes and Sound Clips

Genre: Comedy, Cult, Gross-out film, Romance film, Sex comedy, Gross out, Absurdism

National Lampoon's Animal House is a 1978 American comedy film directed by John Landis. The film is about a misfit group of fraternity men who challenge their college's administrators. The screenplay was adapted by Douglas Kenney, Chris Miller and Harold Ramis from stories written by Miller and published in National Lampoon magazine based on Miller's experiences in the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity at Dartmouth College (the character Pinto is a thinly veiled version of Miller, whose actual fraternity nickname was, in fact, "Pinto"), Ramis' experiences in the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity at Washington University in St. Louis, and producer Ivan Reitman's experiences at Delta Upsilon at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Of the young lead actors, only John Belushi was an established star, but even he had not yet appeared in a movie. Several including Karen Allen, Tom Hulce and Kevin Bacon were just beginning their careers, and within a few years would star in such popular films as...