ORANGE COUNTY (FILM)

'''Orange County''' is an American movie released in 2002. The movie was distributed by Paramount Pictures and produced by MTV Films and Scott Rudin. The movie was directed by Jake Kasdan and written by Mike White. The MPAA rated the movie PG-13 for language, drug content, and sexuality.

Contents

Plot

Trivia

Cast

Official soundtrack

External links

Plot

'Tagline:' Orange county is not just a place, it's a state of mind.
Shaun Brumder (Colin Hanks) is a local surfer kid from Orange County, California who, after the death of his best friend, becomes disillusioned with his life and looks for another path. He stumbles upon a book titled "Straight Jacket", and decides to become an author. He dreams are of going to Stanford University to study with the book's author, Marcus Skinner, and to get away from his dysfunctional household. When his application is rejected after his dim-witted guidance counselor sends in the wrong transcript, Shaun goes to great lengths to get into Stanford by any means possible, with a little help from his girlfriend Ashley (Schuyler Fisk) and his drugged-out older brother Lance (Jack Black).

Trivia

★ The scenes that were supposed to represent Orange County were actually filmed in Los Angeles County.

★ The scenes that were supposed to represent Stanford were actually filmed at the University of Southern California, as well as Occidental College, more than 350 miles away.

★ The high school that was used in the film was Diamond Ranch High School located in Pomona, northeast of Orange County.

★ The shot of the dog nipping Ashley on the nose was an accident, yet Schuyler Fisk stayed in character so director Kasdan left it in.

★ The movie (excluding the prologue "Dear Mr. Skinner") takes place over the course of about 24 hours, from morning Friday, April 15, to morning Saturday, April 16. However these dates in 2002 (when the film was released) fall on a Monday and Tuesday.

★ The name "Brumder" may have originated from the name of an administrator at Mike White's High School.

★ The tagline is actually a line said by Garth (Dana Carvey) at Waynestock in ''Wayne's World 2'' in reference to the setting of Aurora, Illinois.

★ The American television series, ''The O.C.'', was originally supposed to be called "Orange County" but was later changed due to the release of this film. Coincidentally, Colin Hanks made an appearance in The O.C. as "Grady Bridges", star of fictional television show, The Valley. Bret Harrison, who plays Lonny in this movie, also had a guest role in 'The O.C.' playing Danny, Seth's rival for Summer's affections, in Season 1, and is also in the band Big Japan with ''The O.C.'' star Adam Brody.

★ Scenes from the film are shown in the Foo Fighters video for the song ''The One''; the song is also featured on the movie's soundtrack.

★ At the time of release, much was made about the fact the film features several second generation Hollywood progeny: the director, Jake Kasdan, is the son of film director Lawrence Kasdan; Colin Hanks is the son of Tom Hanks; and Schuyler Fisk is the daughter of Sissy Spacek.

★ The ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' episode Help Wanted is seen in this movie.

★ The TV-series The O.C's intro uses the song California by Phantom Planet, which is also used in this movie.

Cast

★ Colin Hanks – Shaun Brumder

★ Jack Black – Lance Brumder

★ Schuyler Fisk – Ashley

★ Bret Harrison – Lonny

★ Kyle Howard – Arlo

★ RJ Knoll – Chad

★ Catherine O'Hara – Cindy Beugler

★ Mike White – Mr. Burke

★ John Lithgow – Bud Brumder

★ Lily Tomlin – Charlotte Cobb

★ George Murdock – Bob Beugler

★ Lillian Hurst – Lupe

★ Chevy Chase – Principal Harbert

★ Olivia Rosewood – Dana

★ Carly Pope – Tanya

★ Natasha Melnick – Katie

★ Sarah Hagan – Sarah

★ Harold Ramis – Donald Durkett, Dean of Admissions

★ Kevin Kline – Marcus Skinner (Uncredited)

★ Ben Stiller – Fireman (Uncredited)

Official soundtrack

★ Defy You - The Offspring

★ Story Of My Life (Live) - Social Distortion

★ The One - Foo Fighters

★ Shadow Stabbing - Cake

★ Butterfly - Crazy Town

★ 1st Time - Bad Ronald

★ Lay Down Burden - Brian Wilson

★ Everything's Cool - Lit

★ Glad That It's Over - 12 Rods

★ Stick 'Em Up - Quarashi

★ Lose You - Pete Yorn

★ Under The Tracks - Creeper Lagoon

★ Love and Mercy - Brian Wilson

★ California - Phantom Planet

★ Hello - Sugarbomb

External links

★ Official website

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★ Movie stills