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Orange County
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Orange County is a 2002 teen comedy written by Mike White, directed by Jake Kasdan and starring Colin Hanks, Jack Black, and Schuyler Fisk.note In other words, it was directed by Lawrence Kasdan's son, and stars both Tom Hanks' son and Sissy Spacek's daughter. Also in the cast are Catherine O'Hara, John Lithgow, Lily Tomlin, and Harold Ramis, among others.Shaun Brumder (Colin Hanks) is just another surfer kid from Orange County, living with his Dysfunctional Family and getting high until his best friend Lonny dies in a surfing accident and he begins to seek more purpose in life. He then discovers a book on the beach, which changes his perspective. Discontented with his family, his school, and pretty much everyone in Orange County, he dreams of becoming an accomplished writer and works hard in high school in order to achieve his dream of studying with his idol, Marcus Skinner, at Stanford. However, his application is rejected due to an administrative error on the part of his college counselor, and he tries to get into Stanford via any means necessary with the help of his family and his girlfriend. Hilarity Ensues.Not to be confused with The O.C., which is unrelated despite the same setting. | |
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Creator Cameo | |
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Creator Cameo: Screenwriter Mike White plays Shaun's English teacher Mr. Burke whom Shaun suspects may be illiterate. | |
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"Well Done, Son" Guy | |
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"Well Done, Son" Guy: Shaun wants his Dad to support his ambitions of becoming a writer. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: Naturally all throughout. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: Ben Stiller appears as a fireman who comes across Lance, who burned down the Stanford admissions building. He sees right through the lie that Lance tells him about how the building burned down, and he advises the authorities to be on a look-out for him. Chevy Chase is Shaun's lecherous high school principal. Kevin Kline as Marcus Skinner, a renowned writer who Shaun hopes to study under at Stanford. | |
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Pyromaniac | |
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Pyromaniac: Lance reveals he is one as he burns down the Admissions Building at Stanford. | |
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Those Two Guys | |
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Those Two Guys: Arlo and Chad, Shaun's two friends. | |
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Obstructive Bureaucrat | |
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Obstructive Bureaucrat: The high school counselor, who gets Shaun's transcript mixed up with another student's, leading to the plot of the rest of the movie, and does nothing to remedy this. | |
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May–December Romance | |
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May–December Romance: Shaun's parents and step-parents. | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Only Sane Man: Shaun, so bad. | |
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Extremely Short Timespan | |
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Extremely Short Timespan: Plot occurs all in one days time. | |
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Fantasy-Forbidding Father | |
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Fantasy-Forbidding Father: Bud doesn't approve of Shaun's aspiration to become a writer. | |
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Brilliant, but Lazy | |
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Brilliant, but Lazy: Shaun, before Lonny's death. Afterward, he throws himself into his schoolwork to make something of his life. He compromises at the end, still being a good student but deciding to surf again. | |
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The Slacker | |
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The Slacker: Lance, who is post-high school, unemployed, on parole, and spends all day stoned watching Spongebob Squarepants. | |
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Ignorant About Fire | |
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Ignorant About Fire: Lance and the admissions office girl are high and discussing their childhoods as pyromaniacs. Lance accidentally sets the curtain on fire and the two lazily giggle and boredly say, "Put that out." The building burns down completely. | |
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College Is "High School, Part 2" | |
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College Is "High School, Part 2": Realized when he sees similar cliques at Stanford doing exactly the same things he hates about high school. | |
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Surrounded by Idiots | |
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Surrounded by Idiots: Shaun's motivation for wanting to get out of Orange County. | |
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FictionFiveHundred | |
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Fiction 500: Shaun is part of this; no one expects him to work or make something of his life because he and his friends come from extremely wealthy families. Heck, with how Shaun is determined to be a writer, he's more concerned about telling good stories than about building a career out of it with freelance or releasing books. | |
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Sweet and Sour Grapes | |
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Sweet and Sour Grapes: After the wild night and getting back home, Shaun finds out that his parents reconcile and his dad pulled some strings to get him into Stanford. Then he thinks about what Marcus Skinner told him about how he doesn't need to go to a good college to learn how to write. Shaun tells his family and girlfriend that he's staying in Orange County and going to the local UC school. | |
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Most Writers Are Writers | |
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Most Writers Are Writers | |
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Place Worse Than Death | |
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Place Worse Than Death: How Shaun views Orange County, due to its Stepford Suburbia qualities. | |
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Granola Girl | |
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Granola Girl: Ashley is obsessed with saving endangered animals. | |
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Big Brother Instinct | |
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Big Brother Instinct: Lance is normally a moocher who hangs around doing drugs. He also pulls Shaun out of the pool when the latter tries to drown himself. | |
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Divorce Is Temporary | |
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Divorce Is Temporary: Bud and Cindy work out their differences and get back together. | |
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Ivy League for Everyone | |
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Ivy League for Everyone: Zig-Zagged. Shaun's counselor gets his amazing transcript mixed up with that of a similarly named student, Shane, who has a pitifully low GPA and SAT score. And because of that mix-up, Shane got into Stanford when it should actually be Shaun. Made all the funnier in that Shane only applied to Stanford as a joke. Played straight with Tanya who got into Stanford via family ties as well as her valley girlish friend Dana who got accepted to Yale. Triple subverted with Shaun who ultimately decides to stay in Orange County despite his parents managing to get him into Stanford after all the calamity when he realizes it's his eccentric group of family and friends that inspire him as a writer. He decides to go to the local college instead. | |
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The Stoner | |
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The Stoner: Lance (of course), Arlo and Chad. | |
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To Absent Friends | |
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To Absent Friends: Lonny's wake. | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot: In-universe. Shaun's story is practically an autobiography as his characters are clearly modeled off his family and friends. | |
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Heroic Safe Mode | |
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Heroic Safe Mode: Shaun has been repressing his grief since Lonny died. He stops surfing and radically changes his behavior to try and deal with the sadness, meaningless of life, and the inevitability of death. Part of the reason that everyone doesn't take his goal to attend Stanford seriously is that they peg his mental state as being in mourning. The movie ends with him deciding to surf again, showing that he's accepted Lonny's death while deciding to make meaning out of his life. | |
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The Alcoholic | |
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The Alcoholic: Cindy, Shaun and Lance's mom, mainly due to divorcing Bud. | |
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Stepford Smiler | |
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Stepford Smiler: Cindy. | |
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Not So Above It All | |
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Not So Above It All: Stanford is one of the most prestigious and selective universities accepting only the "best and the brightest" or the "future leaders of America". However, Shaun quickly learns that, as far as the student life is concerned, it's nothing more than a glorified party school. | |
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Dysfunctional Family | |
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Dysfunctional Family | |
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Valley Girl | |
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Valley Girl: Ashley is a mild one, but all the other girls in Shaun's high school are extreme valley girls. | |
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Ironic Echo Cut | |
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Ironic Echo Cut: | |
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Hard Truth Aesop | |
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Hard Truth Aesop: Shaun learns the hard way that college is not a guarantee that he'll become a successful writer. He sees that enough students at Stanford party as much as the kids at Orange County, and the writer Marcus Skinner tells him that he doesn't need to go to a top school to build his career. While the college in Orange County is not Ivy-League material, he can do well there because of his skills and drive. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: Averted with Shaun's dad. Inverted with Lance, as Jack Black manages to sneak the f-word in so casually it's hardly noticeable. | |
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Really Gets Around | |
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Really Gets Around: Tanya, the popular girl at school who seemingly has no standards and is prone to start making out with anyone, (male and female). | |
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Artistic License – Geography | |
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Artistic License – Geography: Lance claims he could get Shaun and Ashley to Stanford "in 3 hours". Anyone familiar with the California coastline knows it would take twice that time at minimum even if Lance Drives Like Crazy. The distance from Orange County to Stanford is about 644 km (400 miles) meaning Lance would have be consistently traveling over 214 km/h (133 mph) to get there in 3 hours. Of course, it's most likely that Lance simply just miscalculated. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Shaun's father Bud, who abandoned his first family to marry a younger Trophy Wife, and disapproves of his dream to be a writer. He gets better over the course of the movie, though. | |
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Intoxication Ensues | |
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Intoxication Ensues: The Dean of Admissions takes three hits of ecstasy, mistaking them for aspirin. | |
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Surfer Dude | |
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Surfer Dude: Shaun to begin with, Arlo and Chad throughout. | |
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Gold Digger | |
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Gold Digger: Cindy, and Bud's new wife Krista, and neither pretend to be anything but. | |
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Downer Beginning | |
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Downer Beginning: The movie starts with Shaun recalling out Lonny drowned while surfing. It does get lighter from there, oddly enough. | |
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Drives Like Crazy | |
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Drives Like Crazy: Lance. | |
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