In Todd Phillips' OLD SCHOOL, Mitch (Luke Wilson), a thirtysomething businessman, has found himself living a boring, mundane lifestyle. Unfortunately for him, his girlfriend, Heidi (Juliette Lewis), has been getting more adventurous on her own, by throwing wild sex parties while he's away. When Mitch catches her in the act, he moves out and takes up residence in a house close to the local university. This prompts his buddies--the newly married Frank (Will Ferrell) and Beanie (Vince Vaughn), a jaded husband, father, and stereo-store tycoon--to throw Mitch a huge party in honor of his renewed single status. Antics at the party lead to the formation of a makeshift fraternity where age and academics don't matter, and Mitch is the reluctant "godfather." But when the university's scheming dean (Jeremy Piven) catches wind of the new fraternity, he becomes determined to stop their fun. Will the boys overcome the dean's sinister plans? Will Mitch find love again? Will Frank please stop running around naked? And, hey, isn't that the cute girl who plays Jack Bauer's daughter on the TV series 24? These questions--and many more--are answered in the giddily fun and unabashedly immature OLD SCHOOL.
Theatrical release: February 21, 2003
Blu-ray Features:
Region 1
Keep Case
Widecreen
Audio:
5.1 Dolby Digital Plus - English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
Dubbed - French, Spanish - Optional
Subtitles - English, French, Portuguese, Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary
Bloopers
Featurettes - 1. From The Cutting Room Floor
2. Early Flight Home
3. Legal Advice
4. Beanie's True Colors
5. Planning Max's B-day Party
6. Mitch Visits Dean Pritchard
7. Original Locker Room Scene
8. House Inspection
9. Frank's Soul Mate
10. Old School Orientation
11. Inside the Actors Studio Spoof
12. Working Together
13. Old Wild
14. Nomination
Easter Eggs - (2)
Outtakes
Trailers
TV Spots
Distributor Notes: Three men relive their carefree college years by killing off as many brain cells as possible in this over-the-top comedy. Mitch (Luke Wilson) returns home from a less-than-pleasant business trip one evening to discover his wife, Heidi (Juliette Lewis), involved in a ménage à trois with two blindfolded strangers. Feeling less than welcome at home after this, Mitch rents a house near the campus of a nearby college; two of Mitch's old college buddies, Beanie (Vince Vaughn) and Frank (Will Ferrell), stop by to cheer him up. They soon become regular guests at Mitch's place, despite the fact that Frank only recently wed Marissa (Perrey Reeves), while Beanie and his wife, Lara (Leah Remini), are busy with two kids. Beanie decides to throw a housewarming party for Mitch, and since Beanie sells audio equipment for a living, he's able to trick out the big bash with a massive PA system and an appearance by Snoop Dogg. Mitch soon finds he's the not-entirely-willing proprietor of the school's leading party spot, which raises the ire of Pritchard (Jeremy Piven), a dean at the college who was the target of Mitch, Frank, and Beanie's abuse when they were all students. Pritchard arranges to have Mitch's neighborhood zoned into a student housing district, but Beanie and Frank respond by forming a fraternity and making Mitch's home their headquarters. Mitch, however, is not enthusiastic about the idea, especially as he's trying to impress Nicole (Ellen Pompeo), a beautiful divorcee who is less than enchanted with Frank and Beanie's "party hearty" lifestyle. Old School director Todd Phillips knows more than a bit about the seamy side of fraternity life as director of the infamous unreleased documentary Frat House.
Source - Paramount Home Entertainment
Stars
Luke Wilson: Actor
Will Ferrell: Actor, ELF/MELINDA AND MELINDA
Vince Vaughn: Actor, SWINGERS
Jeremy Piven: TV/stage/film actor, Entourage/SMOKIN' ACES
Ellen Pompeo: Actress, GREY'S ANATOMY, MOONLIGHT MILE (2002)
Juliette Lewis: American Actress, NATURAL BORN KILLERS
Leah Remini: Actress, KING OF QUEENS
Perrey Reeves: Actress/"Child's Play 3"
Elisha Cuthbert:
Sarah Tanaka: Actress, RUSHMORE, OLD SCHOOL
Craig Kilborn: Late night talk show host
Artie Lange: Actor
Director
Todd Phillips: Director
Producer
Dan Goldberg: Screenwriter/Prod./Director
Joe Medjuck: Producer/Executive
Todd Phillips: Director
Screenwriter
Todd Phillips: Director
Scot Armstrong: Screenwriter
Composer
Theodore Shapiro: Composer, YOU, ME AND DUPREE (2006)
Cameo
James Carville: Political Pundit
Cameo
Snoop Dogg: Actor/Director/Rapper; THE WASH (2001)
Executive Producer
Ivan Reitman: Canadian Director/Producer
Executive Producer
Tom Pollock: Producer
Featured
Andy Dick: Actor/"In The Army Now"
Featured
Seann William Scott: American actor, AMERICAN WEDDING, ICE AGE: THE MELTDOWN
Director of Photography
Mark Irwin: Director of Photography
Review 1:
"...Mr. Ferrell uses his hilarious, anxious zealotry to sell the part..."
Source: New York Times
p.E13 02/21/2003
Review 2:
"...Luke Wilson is affably low-key..."
Source: USA Today
p.14D 02/21/2003
Review 3:
"...Under Reitman's direction, Ferrell lets his freak flag fly and Vaughn unlooses a notably funny, light-on-his-feet lunkheadedness..."
Source: Entertainment Weekly
p.59 02/28/2003
Review 4:
"...Lively....The reliably funny Farrell's periodic party-monster outbursts amuse..."
Source: Variety
p.39-44 02/17/2003
Review 5:
"...What's funny are the myriad bits and gags and show-stoppers....[An] expertly timed comedy..."
Source: Box Office
p.62 05/01/2003
Review 6:
"...Wilson has ineffable charm and Ferrell natural comic timing..."
Source: Los Angeles Times
p.C1 02/21/2003
Review 7:
"...OLD SCHOOL works best when it combines its belly laughs with a disarming pathos, deriving from its characters' well-sketched sense of confusion over what they want from life..."
Source: Sight and Sound
p.54 07/01/2003
Review 8:
"...Consistently funny, good hearted..."
Source: Film Comment
p.77 07/01/2003
Review 9:
"...Great concept..."
Source: Total Film
p.115 12/01/2003
Review 10:
"[A] very likeable role swap comedy, with Wilson, Ferrell and Vaughn forming a winning triumvirate as they fire off tautly crafted gags with plenty of belly laughs."
Source: Ultimate DVD
p.69 04/01/2008