Revenge of the Nerds
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| Directed by | Jeff Kanew |
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Ted Field Peter Samuelson |
| Screenplay by | Steve Zacharias Jeff Buhai |
| Story by | Tim Metcalfe Miguel Tejada-Flores Steve Zacharias Jeff Buhai |
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| Music by | Thomas Newman |
| Cinematography | King Baggot |
| Edited by | Alan Balsam |
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| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $6 million |
| Box office | $60.4 million (Including rentals) |
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| Soundtrack album by various artists | |
| Released | July 20, 1984 March 31, 1998 CD |
| Genre | College rock, new wave, synthpop |
| Label | Volcano |
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Revenge of the Nerds is a 1984 American sex comedy film from 20th Century Fox, produced by Ted Field and Peter Samuelson, directed by Jeff Kanew, and starring Robert Carradine and Anthony Edwards, with Curtis Armstrong, Ted McGinley, Julia Montgomery, , Larry B. Scott, Michelle Meyrink, John Goodman, and Donald Gibb.
The film's plot chronicles a group of nerds at the fictional Adams College trying to stop the ongoing harassment by the jock fraternity, the Alpha Betas, who are aided by their sister sorority Pi Delta Pi.
Best friends and nerds Lewis Skolnick and Gilbert Lowe enroll in Adams College to study computer science. They are kicked out of the freshmen dorms by the Alpha Betas, a fraternity composed primarily of football team members, after the Alphas carelessly burn down their own frat house. Dean Ulich sets up the freshmen in temporary quarters in the school's gymnasium, but allows them to rush the fraternities to alleviate their housing situation. Lewis, Gilbert, and other nerds fail to gain fraternity membership, but are able to rent and completely renovate a rundown two-story campus house.
Their success irks Stan Gable, the lead Alpha Beta and Adams' star quarterback; he sets his fellow fraternity members against the nerds, pulling several pranks. The nerds approach the campus police for help, but are bound by the fraternities' Greek Council that adjudicates all such pranks; the only way to appeal the Greek Council's inaction is to join a national fraternity. The nerds attempt to gain national membership, eventually selecting the black fraternity Lambda Lambda Lambda (Tri-Lambs). The head of the Tri-Lambs, U. N. Jefferson, is not thrilled by the notion of granting a charter to a primarily nerd chapter, but the fraternity's bylaws obligate them to give any chapter applicant a 60-day probationary membership. The nerds invite Jefferson to a Lambda party with the Omega Mu sorority, which contain similar nerdy women including Gilbert's girlfriend Judy; their party is livened up when Booger supplies joints with high quality marijuana. The Alpha Betas, along with the Pi Delta Pis, to which Stan's head cheerleader girlfriend Betty Childs belongs, let a herd of pigs into the party, disrupting it, allowing Jefferson to see the discrimination the nerds face. The nerds later take their revenge on both groups by staging a panty raid on the Pi Delta Pis and pouring liquid heat into the Alpha Betas' jock straps. Jefferson is impressed by the nerds' willingness to stand up for themselves, and he officially names them a Tri-Lamb chapter.
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