Freshman Orientation

6/5/2021

Good watch, could watch again, and can recommend. Sam Huntington, Marla Sokoloff, and Kaitlin Doubleday are all extremely underrated actors and do excellent jobs. I'll give you that this premise is potentially problematic, but it does have a positive edge to it. What really holds the movie back (or forward for some) is how sociopathic the main character starts. There has to be a low to grow from, but yeesh. It is a coming of age and self discovery story for about 6-20 people, depending on how you count, and there is a lot of good work that goes into balancing and keeping so many character plot lines to quality. A couple of the characters literally stop to shake off how much is going on in the movie at certain points. In the end, this is full of absurdist comedy with a swee

9/8/2026

This had some humor, although the plot was a little out there. I think my favorite parts were of John Goodman as a gay bartender.