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P.C.U.

Play trailer Poster for P.C.U. PG-13 1994 1h 19m Comedy Play Trailer Watchlist
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Nervous high school senior Tom Lawrence (Chris Young) visits Port Chester University, where he gets a taste of politically correct college life when he's guided by fraternity wild man Droz (Jeremy Piven) and his housemates at The Pit. But Droz and his pals have rivals in nasty preppy Rand McPherson (David Spade) and the school's steely president (Jessica Walter). With their house threatened with expulsion, Droz and company decide to throw a raging party where the various factions will collide.

Critics Reviews

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Nell Minow Movie Mom Jun 26, 2003
3/5
Surprisingly funny. Go to Full Review Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times Jan 1, 2000
2/4
PCU is a fertile movie, filled with the beginnings of good ideas and promising scenes. But somehow everything seems truncated; there's not the kind of follow-through that takes a funny situation and builds on it until the laughs begin to pyramid. Go to Full Review David Nusair Reel Film Reviews May 25, 2024
3/4
...quite watchable and often legitimately funny... Go to Full Review Stephen Silver The SS Ben Hecht Apr 26, 2024
3/5
It is a comedy that demonstrates that every op-ed about college kids going way, way too far, is based on very old ideas. (30th anniversary) Go to Full Review Chase Burns The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Dec 9, 2021
Defining what the film stands for is harder than defining what it stands against. It's anti-vegan, anti-feminist, anti-Black, anti-queer, and also-here's the overlooked part-pointedly anti-fascist. Go to Full Review Scott Weinberg DVDTalk.com Jul 25, 2006
3/5
Take Piven out of the equation and it'd be a whole lot uglier. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

Audience Reviews

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Matthew C @RT23791614 Jul 16, 2026 This movie encapsulates the overly sensitive division of college kids in the nineties. PCU should rank up there with Animal House as a classic college movie displaying what college life in a certain time period in American history was like. The funny thing is I feel like that PCU has slipped away into obscurity because of its comedic take on certain delicate topics that seem to have been more accepted in todays society. "Can you show me where the pampers is" See more Tee B @RT11356989 Jul 2, 2026 Blow me where the pampers is. See more Christopher C. @PapaTangooo May 16, 2026 This movie made me want to go to college. See more Michael O. @OLDBRICKM Oct 19, 2025 Another awesome banned film. They don't want you to watch this so you won't find it anywhere. i got the dvd so I'm all set! See more Jason K @RT12957218 Feb 3, 2025 If you haven't seen it in 15+ years like me...u know how great this masterpiece was there is many good reasons to need to binge watch this in 2025....too bad I can't get it anywhere I miss my VHS copy See more Eric F @eric35007 Jun 14, 2024 I remember first seeing this movie in 1997 or 1998. I rented the tape in a Blockbuster with a few friends and we had a lot of laughs. It became one of the main sources of quotes for us, but I never watched it again until yesterday. I always remembered it as "that cool college movie with George Clinton". Seeing it again for the first time in over 20 years was a whole different experience. Not only it brought back so many memories, but the world as we are now makes this movies feels like reading ancient prophecies that came true! What was over the top in colleges in the 1990's looks so little compared to what we have today. Another big change is that what we see in PCU was kinda restricted to college cities, but now with social media it feels like that kind of stuff is everywhere, from older people working to young high school kids. The cast is great and the soundtrack is even better, but what really makes it shine it's the script. You would never see something like this made today, but now MORE THAN EVER it is what we need! See more Read all reviews
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Cast & Crew

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Hart Bochner

Director

Jeremy Piven

James 'Droz' Andrews

Chris Young

Tom Lawrence

Jon Favreau

Gutter

David Spade

Rand McPherson

Sarah Trigger

Samantha

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P.C.U.

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Movie Info

Synopsis Nervous high school senior Tom Lawrence (Chris Young) visits Port Chester University, where he gets a taste of politically correct college life when he's guided by fraternity wild man Droz (Jeremy Piven) and his housemates at The Pit. But Droz and his pals have rivals in nasty preppy Rand McPherson (David Spade) and the school's steely president (Jessica Walter). With their house threatened with expulsion, Droz and company decide to throw a raging party where the various factions will collide.
Director
Hart Bochner
Producer
Paul Schiff
Screenwriter
Adam Leff, Zak Penn
Distributor
20th Century Fox
Production Co
20th Century Fox
Rating
PG-13
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Apr 29, 1994, Original
Release Date (DVD)
Sep 2, 2003
Box Office (Gross USA)
$4.3M
Runtime
1h 19m
Sound Mix
Stereo, Dolby SR, Surround
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)
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