PCU

A high school senior visits college for the weekend, and stay at the wildest house on campus in this classic tale of anti-political-correctness.

• Director:Hart Bochner
• Genre:Comedy
• Runtime:81 minutes

Cast

Jeremy Piven : James ‘Droz’ Andrews
Chris Young : Tom Lawrence
Megan Ward : Katy
Jon Favreau : Gutter
Alex Désert : Mullaney

The story involves preppy pre-freshman (pre-frosh) Tom Lawrence (Chris Young) who visits Port Chester University, a college where fraternities have been outlawed and political correctness is rampant on campus. The film makes heavy use of the political correctness movement as a comedy device. The initials PCU are an abbreviation for “Politically Correct University.”

During his visit, Tom manages to make enemies with nearly every group of students on the campus. Getting caught in an infamous “meat tossing incident” (where tubs of raw meat were dropped on a group of animal rights protesters) angers the “cause-heads” (the name given to a group of students who jump from cause to cause protesting), and while taking a short cut through the computer lab, he trips over the power cords and accidentally crashes all the computers, angering all the people working on their thesis papers.

During his visit, Tom also gets in the middle of the war between “The Pit” and “Balls and Shaft”, two rival groups on campus. The latter group (officially known as “The Order of Balls and Shaft”) is a parody of the Skull and Bones secret society and conservative fraternities generally. Among its members is Rand McPherson (David Spade). Balls and Shaft members want the outlawed Greek system to return. Members of “The Pit”, a party-frat which split from Balls and Shaft years ago, currently led by James “Droz” Andrews (Jeremy Piven), just want everyone to get along. The movie is in part about the battle between Droz and Rand.

Besides Balls and Shaft, the other great nemeses of The Pit are a radical feminist group on campus known as the Womynists, and the college president, Ms. Garcia-Thompson (Jessica Walter), who is obsessed with enforcing “sensitivity awareness” and multiculturalism to the point where she proposes that Bisexual Asian Studies should have its own building (ousting either mathematics or hockey). The Womynists’ entire world view revolves around a paranoia about rape culture and all things phallic, and they are known to hold protests at parties chanting “hey hey, ho ho, this penis party’s got to go!” Ms. Garcia-Thompson conspires with Balls and Shaft to get The Pit, their mutual nemesis, kicked off campus. Read more

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