Orange County (2002)

You can peel and eat this "Orange"-witty,funny and smart performances
Shaun Brumder grew up in Orange County,California.His friends are surfers and and his fellow students think of Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio when asked what they know about "Romeo and Juliet".His parents are divorced and remarried.Each set of parents are loony and dysfunctional to the max.Shaun donates his urine so that his older brother can avoid parole violations.He has a sweet girlfriend who saves animals and is quite content in Orange County.But Shaun wants to be a writer and Stanford University is the goal.He has the grades,but his inept "guidance (or lack thereof) counselor sends the wrong transcripts to Stanford, and Shaun is rejected.Thus begins a comical romp to come to grips with the most important lesson that Shaun will learn....to write well, he never need leave home.But he has to go through the crazy shenanigans of brother (Jack Black),nutty parents (Catherine O'Hara-what a hoot,and John Lithgow),school counselor (Lily Tomlin) in order to come full circle.Colin Hanks and Schuyler Fisk are Shaun and girlfriend Ashley.The real comedy, though,comes from the zany performances of the veterans O'Hara,Lithgow,Tomlin and somewhat Black.Jake Kasdan's script is a little above the raunchy teen-angst film of standard fare,but the performers MAKE this film what it is.I laughed a lot and it made this Easterner understand Britney Spears perhaps a little better...maybe?

Haha Awsome
This movie I'd bet is totally under-rated. It is really funny and on top of that it has a real good story line and plot, get on this movie.

Haha Awsome
This movie I'd bet is totally under-rated. It is really funny and on top of that it has a real good story line and plot, get on this movie.