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Animal House

National Lampoon's Animal House
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Theatrical release poster
by Rick Meyerowitz
Logo Design & Art Direction by Peter Kleinman
Directed by John Landis
Produced by
Written by
Starring
Music by Elmer Bernstein
Cinematography Charles Correll
Edited by George Folsey, Jr.
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date
  • July 28, 1978 (1978-07-28)
Running time
109 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $3 million
Box office $141.6 million
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack:
National Lampoon's Animal House
Soundtrack album by various artists
Released 1978
Recorded RCA Studios, New York and Sound Factory West, Hollywood
Genre Rock and roll, R&B, film score
Length 36:23
Label MCA
Producer Kenny Vance

National Lampoon's Animal House is a 1978 American comedy film from Universal Pictures. It was produced by Ivan Reitman and Matty Simmons, directed by John Landis, and stars John Belushi, Tim Matheson, John Vernon, Verna Bloom, Thomas Hulce, and Donald Sutherland. The film, a direct spin-off from National Lampoon, is about a misfit group of fraternity members who challenge the authority of the dean of Faber College.

The screenplay was adapted by Douglas Kenney, Chris Miller, and Harold Ramis from stories written by Miller and published in National Lampoon. The stories were based on Ramis's experience in the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity at Washington University in St. Louis, as well as Miller's Alpha Delta Phi experiences at Ivy League Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, and producer Reitman's Delta Upsilon experiences at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.

Of the younger lead actors, only the 28-year-old Belushi was an established star, but even he had not yet appeared in a film, having gained fame mainly from his Saturday Night Live television appearances, which was starting its third season in autumn 1977. Several of the actors who were cast as college students, including Hulce, Karen Allen, and Kevin Bacon, were just beginning their film careers, although Matheson had appeared as one of the vigilante cops in the second Dirty Harry film, Magnum Force, released in 1973.


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