Freshman Orientation

Name: Freshman Orientation
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Released: August 31, 2007
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 41

2007

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Regent Releasing | Release Date: August 31, 2007 | R

Summary: A typical Midwestern 18-year-old freshman at a large state university, who is eager to delve into the college party life, instead discovers that school is not the beer-driven sexual fantasy of his imagination. Determined to do anything to obtain the girl of his dreams (a gorgeous but reluctant sorority girl), he decides to adopt a gayA typical Midwestern 18-year-old freshman at a large state university, who is eager to delve into the college party life, instead discovers that school is not the beer-driven sexual fantasy of his imagination. Determined to do anything to obtain the girl of his dreams (a gorgeous but reluctant sorority girl), he decides to adopt a gay identity in order to insinuate himself in her life. This casual charade, however, quickly lands him in a morass of campus activism, gender warfare, fraternity hazes, sorority torture, "coming out" narratives, political martyrdom, and ultimately, a university-wide meltdown. (Regent Releasing)… Expand

Director: Ryan Shiraki

Genre(s): Comedy, Romance

Rating: R

Runtime: 92 min

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James Berardinelli

Feels a bit like a missed opportunity. It's too bad the motion picture as a whole isn't as quirky and clever as its double-edged title. Read full review

Robert Koehler

With intermittently amusing glee, writer-director Ryan Shiraki's tyro film, Freshman Orientation, frolics through the political minefields of a typical college campus. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

On one level, a stereotypical mash of Greek cruelty, queer poetry slams and rabid activist rhetoric. But beneath the tired crudeness and college-romp clichés, the movie is gently perceptive about the malleable nature of sexuality and the barriers we construct to hide our confusion. Read full review

Lou Lumenick

Crude and cheerfully sophomoric teen sex comedy. Read full review

Luke Y. Thompson

It isn’t particularly funny. Mocking lesbians for bad bongo-beating poetry, for instance, just ain’t fresh, interesting or even especially offensive.

Michael Phillips

Freshman Orientation is not incompetently made. Nor is it badly acted. But there’s not a fresh idea in it, and everyone on screen seems to be in a different comedy. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

First-time writer-director Ryan Shiraki's crude, gross comedy of campus sexual errors might push boundaries better were it not so painfully unfunny. Read full review

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FrankP.

Oct 3, 2007

I thought it was really funny. Smart satire of teen movies.

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JaredC.

Sep 2, 2007

I liked it, but I didn't enjoy it.

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JimG.

Sep 27, 2007

Completely predictable, unoriginal, uninspired yawn meant to premised on the myth that straight white guys are the only "real" men or redeemable souls in this universe.

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Daniel

Sep 8, 2007

I can't believe I went to see this piece of crap!

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