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From: Reviews and Criticism of Theatrical and Dramas (http://www.lasalle.edu/library/vietnam/FilmIndex/home.htm) compiled by John K. McAskill, La Salle University ([email protected])

N2825 ’S (USA, 1978) (Other titles: American college; Animal house)

Credits: director, ; writers, , , Chris Miller. Cast: , , John Vernon, Thomas Hulce. Summary: set at a 1960s Middle college. The members of Delta Tau Chi fraternity offend the straight-arrow and up-tight people on campus in a film which irreverently mocks college traditions. One of the villains is an ROTC cadet who, it is noted at the end of the film, was later shot by his own men in Vietnam.

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