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How I Got Into College

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High school senior Marlon Bowne is smitten with overachieving classmate Jessica Kailo. But, if he wants to have a shot with her, he'll have to find a way to get into Ramsey College, Jessica's top choice of schools. It won't be easy, since the college is highly selective and Marlon's grades are hardly impressive. That means the lovelorn teen will have to find a way to score high on the SATs and win over the college admissions committee.

movie

Status: Released

Released Date: 1989-05-19

Runtime: 86 mins

Director: Savage Steve Holland

Writer: Terrel Seltzer

Spoken language: English

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Original title: How I Got Into College

Production Companies: 20th Century Fox

Production Countries: United States of America

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GenerationofSwine
People have called out the acting... and that is fair, but what did they think that they were walking into? It is a low budget comedy that bill itself as a low budget comedy and is ridiculous fun like a low budget comedy. So the acting waffles between good and bad. But the plot is sufficiently inane and stupid enough to be hysterical. And it gets the happy ending that comedies like these promise. In other words, you get exactly what the film claims it is without any pretenses, and you get to laugh for a while... and that, after all, was the point of making this film, to get the audience to laugh at some unbelievable things
2023-01-12

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