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Revenge Of The Nerds (1991 Film)
''Revenge of the Nerds'' is a 1984 American comedy film directed by Jeff Kanew and starring Robert Carradine, Anthony Edwards (actor), Anthony Edwards, Ted McGinley, and Bernie Casey. Its plot chronicles a group of nerds at the fictional Adams College trying to stop the ongoing harassment by Jock (stereotype), jock Fraternities and sororities, fraternity Alpha Betas and its sister sorority, Pi Delta Pi. Plot Best friends and nerds Lewis Skolnick and Gilbert Lowe enroll in Adams College to study computer science. The Alpha Betas, a Fraternities and sororities, fraternity that includes most of the Adams football team, carelessly burn down their own house and urged by Coach Harris, take over the freshman dorms, throwing the freshmen out into the street. Dean Ulich designates temporary living space in the gymnasium and allows the freshmen to rush the fraternities. Lewis, Gilbert, and several other nerds fail to join fraternities but obtain and renovate a dilapidated house near c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Kanew
Jeffrey Roger Kanew (born December 16, 1944) is an American film director, screenwriter, film producer and film editor who early in his career made trailers for many films of the 1970s and is probably best known for directing the film ''Revenge of the Nerds'' (1984) and for editing ''Ordinary People''. Kanew directed '' Gotcha!'' (1985) and ''Tough Guys'' (1986), the final film pairing actors Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster, having initially directed Douglas in 1983's ''Eddie Macon's Run''. His other directorial efforts include ''Troop Beverly Hills'' starring Shelley Long, ''V.I. Warshawski'' starring Kathleen Turner, ''Natural Enemies'' starring Hal Holbrook and Louise Fletcher, '' Babij Jar'', a Holocaust drama, ''National Lampoon's Adam & Eve'', several TV episodes, and for the stage and video versions of the Kirk Douglas one-man show "Before I Forget" (2009). Kanew also directed the documentary ''Black Rodeo'' (1972), capturing the events surrounding the first ever perfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
