Orange County
It's Not Just A Place. It's A State Of Mind.
Rising young stars Colin Hanks and Schuyler Fisk head up an outstanding cast including Jack Black (Shallow Hal), Catherine O'Hara (Home Alone), John Lithgow (3rd Rock from the Sun), Harold Ramis and Lily Tomlin in this outrageous coming-of-age comedy.
Shaun Brumder (Hanks) is content to be a bright, talented, but unfocused Southern California surf slacker- until the day he discovers a novel by acclaimed author Martin Skinner. Inspired, he suddenly realizes his life's ambition: to leave behind mind-numbing Orange County and study creative writing with Skinner at Stanford University. But after being denied enrollment due to an admissions error, Shaun is forced to seek help from not only his girlfriend Ashley (Fisk) but also his hopelessly dysfunctional parents (O'Hara & Lithgow), stoner brother Lance (Black), and a hilarious circumstances to make his dream of escaping his hometown nightmare a reality.
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It's good, but not great. - moviegenius
This was a funny movie. However, it was not great. Yet, it was good. Jack Black was pretty funny as Colin Hanks' brother. In my opinion, this is a movie that I think is worth seeing. Some of the other supporting characters were funny, too. If you want to see a good movie with Jack Black, you can see this movie and you can also try out ``School Of Rock''.Great movie - Mykull
Great movie... great acting.. great story line.. and great humor. This movie is all that... and then some. I think its close to being a classic of its kind. I think I enjoyed it more due to Jack Black.. I'm a big fan of his.. but more so for his older movies.. as he was funny, but not over the top trying to hard to be funny.. so that made this movie even better. Hanks is pretty good as well in this movie.... but hard not to look at him and see his dad in him.Extremely Funny! - Losse
2 words: Jack Black!
This movie is hilarious... It's this movie that made me want to watch as many Jack Black movies as possible. The plot adds a second dimension to this movie making it more interesting than the comedy it offers. Aside from the laugh out loud, pause the movie because you won't want to miss any action while your rolling on the floor, the storyline and characters make this movie worth watching over again.
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It's good, but not great. - moviegenius
This was a funny movie. However, it was not great. Yet, it was good. Jack Black was pretty funny as Colin Hanks' brother. In my opinion, this is a movie that I think is worth seeing. Some of the other supporting characters were funny, too. If you want to see ...Great movie - Mykull
Great movie... great acting.. great story line.. and great humor. This movie is all that... and then some. I think its close to being a classic of its kind. I think I enjoyed it more due to Jack Black.. I'm a big fan of his.. but more so for his older movies.. ...Extremely Funny! - Losse
2 words: Jack Black!
This movie is hilarious... It's this movie that made me want to watch as many Jack Black movies as possible. The plot adds a second dimension to this movie making it more interesting than the comedy it offers. Aside from the laugh ...