Accepted Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Plot

High school senior Bartleby "B" Gaines (Justin Long) is on his way to scoring eight out of eight rejection letters from colleges--which isn't going to go over big with Mom and Dad. At least he's not alone in the exclusion. Several of his crew of outcast friends are in the same, college-less boat. So...how does a guy facing a bleak career please his parents and get noticed by dream girl Monica (Blake Lively)?

Simple. Open his own university.

B and his band of misfit freshmen take "liberal" arts literally when they fool their parents and peers and create the esteemed South Harmon Institute of Technology. They clean up an abandoned psychiatric facility, employ a buddy's brilliant?but subversive—uncle (Lewis Black) as the dean and create a fake web site as their campus calling card. Bam! South Harmon, the alternative school of higher learning, is born.

Just as they are settling in, B and company realize they've done their jobs too well. Dozens of other college rejects show up for classes at this less-than-lofty institute. Under the scornful eyes of the privileged students from the neighboring college, B and his friends forge ahead with maintaining a fake, functioning university. Their efforts to explore alternative education result in a battle between the South Harmon co-eds and the "sister" school snobs.

With his future in the balance, it's going to take more than just sleight of hand to keep B out of jail as he strives to get the girl, impress his parents and just become... "Accepted".

Comedy Teen

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  Justin Long

  Night Patrol , Alpha and Omega

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  Blake Lively

  Side Effects, It Ends with Us

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  Lewis Black

  Inside Out, Inside Out 2

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  Mark Derwin

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  Jack Gaines

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  Columbus Short

  Quarantine, Stomp the Yard

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  Jonah Hill

  The Wolf of Wall Street, War Dogs

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  Maria Thayer

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Who is making Accepted – Crew List

A look at Accepted behind-the-scenes crew and production team. The film's director Steve Pink last helmed The Wheel and Hot Tub Time Machine 2. The film's writer Mark Perez last penned Game Night and Early Retirement.

Director

Steve Pink

Screenwriters

Mark Perez
Adam Cooper
Bill Collage

Producers

Michael Bostick
Tom Shadyac

Production – What we know about the Accepted

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Dec 2004

Completed

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