ORANGE COUNTY is a teen comedy that, along with goofy lowbrow fun, offers a surprising amount of wit and heart. Colin Hanks (son of Tom Hanks) stars as Shaun, a carefree California surfer dude who loses a friend to a tsunami. Shaun is contemplating his life when he finds a brilliant novel buried in the sand. He reads it and decides to become a writer himself, and study with the author, who teaches at Stanford. He's eager to leave Orange County, where he lives with his clingy alcoholic mother (Catherine O'Hara) and his burnout brother Lance (a brilliantly debauched Jack Black). When Shaun's guidance counselor (Lily Tomlin) sends the wrong transcript to Stanford, Shaun needs all the help he can get from his seemingly hopeless family to salvage his dream. ORANGE COUNTY was directed by Jake Kasdan (Lawrence Kasdan's son) and written by Mike White (CHUCK & BUCK) who also plays Shaun's illiterate English teacher. Schuyler Fisk (Sissy Spacek's daughter) plays Ashley, Shaun's animal-loving girlfriend, and she and Hanks make an attractive and sympathetic pair. While all kinds of insanity (including hilarious turns by Black, O'Hara, and Harold Ramis) spins around them, the young and dynamic couple remain the soulful center of the film.

Colin Hanks: American actor, THE HOUSE BUNNY
Jack Black: Actor, HIGH FIDELITY
Leslie Mann: Actress/"The Cable Guy"
Schulyer Fisk: Actor, ORANGE COUNTY (2001)
Lizzy Caplan: Actress, ORANGE COUNTY (2001)
Catherine O'Hara: Emmy-winning American actress, BEETLE JUICE,
John Lithgow: American Actor
Lily Tomlin: American Actress/Comedienne
Chevy Chase: American actor, comedian, VACATION
Harold Ramis: Actor/Writer/Director
Kevin Kline: Actor, SOPHIE'S CHOICE
Ben Stiller: American director/actor, MEET THE PARENTS (2000)

Jake Kasdan: Writer-director/son of Lawrence Kasdan

Scott Rudin: Producer/Executive
Van Toffler: EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
David Gale: Producer, VARSITY BLUES (1999)
Herb Gains: Producer, SUMMER CATCH (2001)
Adam Schroeder: Producer

Mike White: Screenwriter/actor

Michael Andrews: Composer, DONNIE DARKO (2001)

Tara Timpone: 

"...Hanks is an agreeably appealing leading man....Catherine O'Hara is in terrific comic form..."
"...Hanks and Fisk are charming....[The cast] keeps the fun at full tilt. It's the new year's first happy surprise..."
"...Offbeat....ORANGE COUNTY is peachy..."
"...Kasdan clearly has a deep and highly contagious affection for his characters..."
"...Hanks is an amiable hero....Hanks carries his lead role with confident ease....Fisk is appealing..."
"...[The film has] plenty of laughs....[It's] tailor-made for Black..."
"...O'Hara and Black could give courses on comic expressiveness and timing..."