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Really thought this was going to a respectful movie about the work of Father Amorthe. He Seemed to be a good priest and devout Christian. This movie is a joke, Russel Crowe is a caricature of him. This is truly a horror flick along the lines of 80's-90's slasher, Freddy Krueger style. In fact that actually rip off a scene from the 1985 ish movie! Foul, ugly, banal, cliched boring. Had we not bout large beers we would have walked out. Apparently the majority of the budget was blown on Crowe's salary - because every other actor is bottom of the barrel. Fortunately, it was $5 Tuesday - and the large seats are like a bed. Should have taken a nap.

Went as a favor with friends. I don't usually like 'Christian' films as they are usually cheesy. This was NOT - the acting of the possessed inmate made Anthony Hopkins portrayal of Hanibal Lecter look amateurish. Dialogue was good considering it's like Dinner with Andre set in a prison. It was a 'Hell' of a lot better than anything I've seen (save Top Gun Maverick) in the last oh 10 years. Definitely worth the time and ticket price. Got to laugh though looking at the metrics - seem suspiciously skewed low compared to reviews. Anyone with rudimentary stats class knows somethings wrong here. Nice try -

Saw this at the theater in 1986, was a college student myself. And my lord, did this movie capture the fun, the fads, the fantasy that was the 80's! Bursting with optimism, a multi-millionair dad joins his son at college - why? Because he can. Buys out an entire dorm-floor turns it into a penthouse for his son and his room-mate. Dad parties it up as well as any youngster and cheats at a higher level, having the authors of required books, i.e., Vonnegut write his essays, NASA complete his astrology, and being a business mogul works to prove the prof of Business Theory is a numbnutz. Like any guy on campus, he's on the hunt for a lady friend who he finds in his Lit class - the teach herself playfully played by Sandy Kellerman. Her Brit boyfriend gets his tweedy self in a knot trying to fight for her affections - but alas.

Ok. Now the negs. This movie offers THE MOST EGREGIOUS casting errors in cinematic history hiring the flaccid what's his name - when Robert Downey Jr. Was standing right there!!!! Clearly someone's agent was friends or relatives of a higher up. But beyond that- this movie is a classic. Had the casting been corrected this would be iconic, on par with Breakfast Club and the likes.

I am sooooo thankful that movies like this are available to pull people out of the depressing duldrums in which the viewing public has been immersed this last decade. LAUGH FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! After all, he made laugher - cause it's healthy. And never more needed than now.