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  Jack Black: Orange County - Movie
Now a movie may have the best acting or directing you have ever seen, or maybe it has a story or plot so great that it just makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
Other times, a movie may be kind of stupid but at least I ate a dozen packets of mustard and made fun of something.
In the end, Orange County the movie and the place is for dumb teenagers or semi-retarded adults.
www.superiorpics.com /jack_black/movie/2002_orange_county.html   (1032 words)

  
 The Popkorn Junkie :: Orange County
Yes, this movie fits perfectly into the teen demographic (the pre-teens walking out of the theater at the same time I was loved it), but there's no gross-out humor like in all the other "teen" movies.
Except for Shawn, that is. He thinks that living in Orange County is preventing him from becoming a writer, and when the school of his choice rejects him, he becomes determined to go to that school of his choice anyway.
And if this movie has any raunch to it at all, it's because of Jack...and I mean that in a good way.
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 Orange County
Orange County is a possible answer to that question.
The most notable aspect of this movie is that his has the son of Tom Hanks, the daughter of Sissy Spacek, and the son of Lawrence Kasdan.
Orange County here is synonymous with any upper middleclass suburb.
www.haro-online.com /movies/orange_county.html   (564 words)

  
 Orange County (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Orange County is an American movie released in 2002.
The movie was distributed by Paramount Pictures and produced by MTV Films and Scott Rudin.
The high school that was used to film Orange County was not in Orange County, but rather was Diamond Ranch High School located in Pomona, northeast of Orange County.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orange_County_(film)   (505 words)

  
 Orange County
ORANGE COUNTY is a teen comedy that, along with goofy lowbrow fun, offers a surprising amount of wit and heart.
The essential problem in Orange County is that, having created an unusually vivid set of characters worthy of its strong cast, the film flounders when it comes to giving them something to do.
Arriving amid the traditionally withered harvest of January releases, Orange County is peachy.
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/orange_county   (903 words)

  
 ORANGE COUNTY movie review (with clip, photo)
On the surface, the movie is a rather typical teen comedy, but the casting and crew demand notice.
Orange County is good enough to serve as a guilty-pleasure, and it probably will put smiles on the faces of younger viewers, but it never rises above a B level.
Orange County is to be complimented for supplementing the sex and drug jokes that dominate teen movies with more thoughtful fare -- such as family dynamics and the importance of remaining true to oneself -- but melodramatic delivery undermines many of the scenes.
www.rochestergoesout.com /mov/o/orange.html   (600 words)

  
 Frank's Reel Movie Reviews - Orange County
Then came Orange County that is a bit too sophisticated to resort to such cheap tactics.
Orange County doubles as both the movie's title and the hometown of Shaun Brumder, (Colin Hanks, son of Tom Hanks) a local surfer dude who discovers his desires and talents to become a famous writer after he finds a novel, half-buried in the sand on his favorite surfing beach.
This movie will not stay with you very long after you leave the theater but it is definitely an entertaining watch that deserves your attention.
www.franksreelreviews.com /reviews/orangecounty.htm   (541 words)

  
 Orange County Movie Review
"Orange County" is an interesting debut for two young actors, both of whom are children of famous movie stars.
Their acting talents are not exactly pushed to the limit in "Orange County," but then again, neither did Tom Hanks' career take off until he made a few mediocre comedies first.
The card up the sleeve in the case of "Orange County" also proves to be a very diverse and talented cast of comedians, both young and old.
www.killermovies.com /o/orangecounty/reviews/hfa.html   (621 words)

  
 Orange County Movie Review - MovieWeb
A lot of things happen in Orange County, yet the mass of its weight is not a ten-ton boulder building dirt as it drifts down a mountain.
Orange County holds a nice collection of tiny punches pulled by John Lithgow, Lily Tomlin, Catherine O'Hara, Harold Ramis, Kevin Kline, and Ben Stiller.
It proved to have fresh and new ideas that were as scary as any horror movie, and as funny as anything found lying dead on the asphalt of its release year.
www.movieweb.com /movies/film/03/303/review339.php   (1396 words)

  
 Orange County Movie Review
Colin Hanks stars as Shaun Brumder in the new Orange County, a surprisingly funny and endearing comedy from director Jake Kasdan (son of Body Heat and Grand Canyon director Lawrence Kasdan).
As the movie opens, Shaun is concerned that staying in Orange County will cause his creative juices to dry up.
Jack Black is not one of my favorite actors, and the commercials for Orange County show the Shallow Hal star prancing and screaming his way through scene after scene in his underwear with a torso so white you could shine the movie on it.
www.angelfire.com /journal2/livewire/orangecountyreview.htm   (772 words)

  
 Movie-List - Reviews - Orange County
Orange County stars Colin Hanks (Tom's son) as Shaun Brumder, a struggling teen-surfer who has a revelation when he finds a book in the sand.
Director Jake Kasdan's Orange County is finally a teen comedy that doesn't fall into the gross-out genre.
The first obviously amazing thing about Orange County is that the film's cast is physically the next generation of already established Hollywood alumni.
www.movie-list.com /reviews/orangecounty.shtml   (464 words)

  
 Laramie Movie Scope: Orange County
"Orange County," happily, is an exception to the rule.
The funniest scenes in the movie involve Shaun's literature teacher, played by Mike White, who also wrote the screenplay for the movie (the versatile White also wrote the screenplay for the acclaimed "The Good Girl").
While the movie does suffer from some of the usual problems of teen comedies (adults that are too stupid to be believable, for instance).
www.lariat.org /AtTheMovies/dvd/orangecounty.html   (969 words)

  
 Orange County
  Orange County is neither of these, thankfully (although if I had to put it one of those two categories it probably leans toward the gross-out).
  Orange County is the first teen movie in a long time to stop at one vomit scene, and it shows that, just maybe, teen movies are on the road to recovery.
Watch For: There are some great cameos in the movie, not only by Kevin Kline as Michael Skinner but also by Ben Stiller as a suspicious fireman and Chevy Chase as one of Sean’s high school teachers.
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 Orange County (2002) Movie Review by Mark Dujsik at The Movie Insider
Last year, the trend came to a crescendo with a whole list of movies that I would rather leave unmentioned, as to forget about their existence.
The movie plays, as always, as a series of gags, but its humor is not exclusive to the gross-out type.
Underlying all the jokes and simple characterization is the sense that everything the characters in the movie do is to help young Sean realize his dream.
www.themovieinsider.com /mr333-orange-county-movie-review.html   (875 words)

  
 Movie Forums :: Reviews :: Orange County: Fresh Glee, Squeezed
In the world of Orange County, a Southern California nouveau riche paradise, superficiality reigns supreme and Shaun has woken up from the dream and found himself surrounded by what he believes is a world that will hold him back from his dreams or, worse, make him as useless and superficial as all the rest.
Beyond that is the question of her desire, and everyone else's, to remain in Orange County while Shaun leaves all those he loves behind for a dream of bigger and supposedly better things.
As for facts - this wasn't filmed in Orange County, though according to a friend who can claim it as his birthplace, it was filmed in Diamond Bar, which is technically outside - but very close - to Orange County.
www.movieforums.com /reviews/70   (736 words)

  
 Greenwich Village Gazette: Movie Review: Orange County, Directed by Jake Kasdan, Starring: Colin Hanks, Jack Black, ...
Sometimes throwaway movies like this one actually are pretty decent, other times they totally suck.
Orange County is to LA what Westchester County is to New York.
The rest of the movie is how after getting rejected, Shaun gets into more and more trouble trying to thwart divine providence.
www.nycny.com /movies/orange_county   (382 words)

  
 Orange County Movie Review at Hollywood Video
The locale of Disneyland, Republicans, and car dealerships — otherwise known as Orange County — could serve as a great landscape for social satire, but Jake Kasdan's new high-school-set comedy of the same name is too short-sighted to pull it off.
Though it is intermittently amusing, the movie unwisely chooses broad jokes over subtle humor, coy casting over talented actors, and forced feel-good moments over genuine emotion.
This emphasis on over-the-top tomfoolery is eventually deleterious to Orange County's plot.
www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?mid=134181   (879 words)

  
 Orange County: Movie-Source.com Orange County Movie, Orange County Preview, Orange County Review
Orange County proves something else as well; movies aimed at teenagers do not need to be gross.
The first half of Orange County is definitely funnier than the second half, but it is consistently good from beginning to end.
The first forty minutes or so shines because Shaun is in Orange County for the most part; the movie is sort of critical of the area, making fun of the superficial features of it all.
www.movie-source.com /movie_page.asp?movieID=870   (714 words)

  
 Orange County movie posters and memorabilia at MovieGoods
Equally credible Tinseltown offspring continue aplenty with love-interest Fisk (daughter of Sissy Spacek and Jake Fisk) and director Jake Kasdan (son of Lawrence).
Typical Orange County, California teen Shaun Brumder trades his surf board for a pen when he accidentally discovers the joys of literature via a Marcus Skinner (an uncredited Kline) novel on the beach.
Determined to study under Skinner at Stanford, Brumder is bummed when the wrong test scores are submitted to the college who summarily rejects him.
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 "Orange County" -- The Movie
Initially, I thought the movie was about an underqualified student's quest to gain admission to Stanford, because he was willing to change.
Despite all the cringes and silliness, I thought the movie came through with an important idea, that one doesn't need to go to Stanford to be happy.
Ironically, it was only in the end of the movie, faced with acceptance, did he turn into the slacker that previews had been promising.
www.collegeconfidential.com /discus/messages/8/44801.html   (1155 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Orange County (Ws Sub): DVD: Colin Hanks,Jack Black,Schuyler Fisk,Kyle Howard,Bret Harrison,R.J. Knoll,Mike ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Orange County is now available to download for $9.99 from Amazon Unbox.
They play (respectively) an Orange County teen and aspiring writer named Shaun who yearns for admission to Stanford, and his sensible girlfriend who knows just how to nurture his dreams.
In the movie's mellower moments, it slips in some clever jokes about the writing life and more than a few homoerotic asides (is football practice anything else?).
www.amazon.com /Orange-County-Sub-Colin-Hanks/dp/B000065U36   (1927 words)

  
 Movie Spoiler for the film - ORANGE COUNTY
Hanks agrees and that since it’s about his life in Orange County, he really doesn’t know how it’s going to end up.
They make it back to Orange County and Hanks and Black are shocked to find that his father is divorcing his young wife and moving back into the house.
The film ends with him back on the beach, burying the book he found a year earlier and then running to the water with his surfboard and friends.
www.themoviespoiler.com /Spoilers/orangecounty.html   (696 words)

  
 Orange County - DVD Movie Central
It takes place, as the title suggests, in Orange County, California, a place that comes across exactly like all of us who have never been to California picture it to be.
But unlike most teen comedies that rely on plot (or crude attempts at one), Orange County is smart enough to go for the jugular in hilarious ways.
Orange County forgoes the silly spoofing of its teen movie peers and goes right for the satire, with satisfying results.
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 Orange County Movie
Based on stories told in this forum and elsewhere by parents and students, the over-the-top Orange County GC is not that far off the mark at many schools.
Mostly, Orange County is a moderately lowbrow comedy featuring a neurotic, alcoholic mom, a drugged-out but amiable brother, and an assortment of surfer dudes, classmates, etc. College admissions junkies will find bits and pieces, though, where the movie strikes a responsive chord.
This scene doesn't make it into the movie, but no doubt it was meant to contrast with the reality of his actual Stanford experience.
www.collegeconfidential.com /discus/messages/70/928.html   (508 words)

  
 Orange County (2002)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Colin Hanks stars in "Orange County," a teen comedy revolving around an aspiring teenaged-wannabe-writer, living in Orange County, and how he must cope with the fact that his college advisor may have ruined his chances of getting into a good college.
The film does resort to gross-out humor at times, which is quite disappointing, but it never goes below-the-belt to American Pie humor, which is at least comforting in some aspects.
Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Orange County (2002)
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 Movie Theaters in Orange County, California on KillerOrange!™
According to OC Weekly: "Hate the fact that watching a movie nowadays at fancy multiplexes is almost as expensive as buying a negative of the film?
Head over to Santa Ana’s Fiesta Theater, one of the few remaining duplexes in the county that boasts $5 tickets all the time for any movie.
In The City of Orange, near The Arrowhead Pond.
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 Orange County - Moviefone
Orange County (2002) Orange County is a good movie.
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 Orange County (2002) - MovieWeb
A high-school student is rejected by every college on his list, not because of his own shortcomings but because of his ridiculously inept guidance counselor, who sends the wrong transcripts.
Colin Hanks (yes, that's Tom's son) stars as an Orange County kid who just wants to get into Stanford and become a writer.
To fix the transcript problem, he enlists his slacker brother, Jack Black, who drives him to the school to talk to the dean of admissions.
www.movieweb.com /movie/orangecounty/index.html   (151 words)

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