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PCU (1994) Bridget Drummer. 123 subscribers. Subscribed. 749. 141K views 7 years ago. A high school senior visits college for the weekend, and stays at the wildest house on campus in this...
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PCU 1994 A high school senior visits college for the weekend, and stays at the wildest house on campus in this classic tale of anti-political-correctness.Dir...
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In this video we review the 1994 comedy, PCU. This film stars Jeremy Piven (James 'Droz' Andrews), Chris Young (Tom Lawrence), Megan Ward (Katy), Jon Favreau...
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PCU: Directed by Hart Bochner. With Jeremy Piven, Chris Young, Megan Ward, Jon Favreau. A high school senior visits college for the weekend, and stays at the wildest house on campus.
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- Comedy
- Hart Bochner
- 1994-04-29
- It Was Based on The Writers' Experiences at Wesleyan University.
- Bochner Fought to Cast Jeremy Piven.
- But Piven Was Critical of Bochner.
- Piven Did Come Up with The Movie's Most Famous Line.
- It Was Mostly Filmed in Canada.
- They Played Softball Against The Cast and Crew of Ted Demme's The Ref.
- Jon Favreau Was Happy to Lose His Dreadlocks.
- 20th Century Fox insisted It Be Rated PG-13, to The Film's detriment.
- Some Wesleyan Students Didn't Like it.
- Zak Penn Was "Heartbroken" When The Film Didn't Do well.
Zak Penn was visiting the Wesleyan campus as a "pre-frosh," just like Tom Lawrence (Chris Young) in PCU, when he witnessed a campus-wide campaign formed by the frat the Eclectic Society. The Society was fighting against the Office of Admission, who tried to turn Eclectic into their office building. The Pit was based on the Eclectic Society. Penn an...
Though it would be another decade before Jeremy Piven found mega-stardom with Entourage, Bochner knew he was the right actor for the lead role of James "Droz" Andrews. "I fought for him over people like Adam Sandler, because I thought he had the kind of energy that was rare and kinetic and infectious," Bochner said.
On the film's DVD commentary, Pivencomplained that Bochner did not let him improvise; the actor felt the movie would have been funnier had he been allowed to do so.
Bochner apparently allowed Piven to warn Jon Favreau's character, Gutter, about being "that guy"at the concert wearing the band's T-shirt.
Though some footage was shot on the Wesleyan campus, for the most part, the University of Toronto portrayed the fictitious Port Chester University. When Gutter goes into Port Chester, he really goes to the village of Unionville.
Team PCU defeated the cast and crew of the Denis Leary black comedy, which was also filming in Toronto at the time. Upon being reminded of the softball loss by Ted Demme, Leary replied, "Yeah, but we have a better script.”
While, in 2014, Favreau calledworking on the movie an "amazing experience," he also revealed in a Reddit AMA his most vivid memory was spending nine hours in a chair getting dreadlocks woven into his hair to play Gutter. "My happiest moment is when we finished filming, and they pulled all the dreadlocks out, and I got to wash my hair and run a comb...
"One thing they did do that I wasn’t thrilled about was that they required me to deliver a PG-13 movie, that was contractual, but I felt like they made me cut out the edgier, funnier, aspects of the whole PCU thing," Bochner said. "We had to soften some of that stuff, which worked against the movie."
Leff, Penn, and producer Paul Schiff (another Wesleyan alum) attended two screenings of their movie. While most of the audience seemed receptive, the Hartford Courantreportedthat there was "some hissing, a few isolated shouts, some paper airplanes aloft, and several walkouts." When one woman said "this sucks" as she walked up the aisle, Schiff reto...
"PCU, which at the time was dismissed ... is now, in the States at least, a cult comedy," Penn said in an interview with Den of Geek. "To talk to a classroom full of students, and hear that they all love this movie, which didn't get the time of day, is pretty satisfying—because at the time it was heartbreaking."
- Roger Cormier
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PCU (1994) - Before it was called "Woke", it was called being "PC". Recommendation. Trailer. This 1994 comedy follows a young high school senior touring a prestigious liberal arts college, only to find out that he is to stay with the anarchist "frat" led by Jeremy Piven as Droz.
