2006 · comedy · coming-of-age
Accepted
Directed by Steve Pink1h 33m2006
A high school slacker who's rejected by every school he applies to opts to create his own institution of higher learning, the South Harmon Institute of Technology, on a rundown piece of property near his hometown.
Our read: Accepted (2006) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · coming-of-age entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / coming-of-age, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
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How Accepted feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want goofy college-fraud comedy with underdog energy and zero homework.”
Skip it tonight — Juvenile campus chaos will feel painfully dumb when you're already sleepy.
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