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National Lampoon's Animal House

National Lampoon's Animal House (also called Animal House) is a 1978 comedy film in which a misfit group of fraternity boys takes on the system at their college. It stars John Belushi, Tim Matheson[?], Karen Allen[?], John Vernon[?], Thomas Hulce[?], Cesare Danova[?], Peter Riegert[?], Mary Louise Weller[?], Stephen Furst[?], James Daughton[?], Bruce McGill[?], Mark Metcalf[?], James Widdoes[?], Martha Smith[?], Kevin Bacon and Donald Sutherland.

The movie was adapted by Douglas Kenney[?], Christopher Miller[?] and Harold Ramis[?] from stories that had originally been written by Miller and published in National Lampoon magazine. It was directed by John Landis[?]. In 2001 the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.

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