Revenge of the Nerds
Revenge of the Nerds is a 1984 American comedy film directed by Jeff Kanew and starring Robert Carradine, Anthony Edwards, Ted McGinley, and Bernie Casey. The film's plot chronicles a group of nerds at the fictional Adams College trying to stop the ongoing harassment by the jock fraternity, the Alpha Betas, in addition to the latter's sister sorority, Pi Delta Pi.
Plot
Best friends and nerds Lewis Skolnick and Gilbert Lowe enroll in Adams College to study computer science. The Alpha Betas, a fraternity that includes most of the Adams football team, carelessly burn down their own house and urged by Coach Harris, take over the freshman dorms, literally throwing the freshmen out into the street. Dean Ulich designates temporary living space in the gymnasium and allows the freshmen to rush the fraternities. Lewis, Gilbert, and several other nerds fail to join fraternities but are able to obtain and renovate a dilapidated house near campus.
More details
| author | Jeff Buhai Steve Zacharias |
|---|---|
| director | Jeff Kanew |
| editor | Alan Balsam |
| genre | comedy |
| keywords | best friend black fraternity campus police cannabis cheer computer-driven musical production computer music computer science engage fraternities and sororities fraternity greek games homecoming intramural sports list of african american greek and fraternal organizations living space lose marijuana meet nerd only way pep rally sexual intercourse throwing a rock win |
| musicBy | Thomas Newman |
| producer | Peter Samuelson Ted Field |
| productionCompany | Interscope Communications |
| publisher | 20th Century Fox |
| recordedAt | Arizona |
| theme | buddy comedy |