Across
- 2. A PG-13 film with spirit, and, within the confines of a most conventional story, a persuasive lesson for adolescents. Girl goes off to college and learns that she’s just fine when she’s rejected from a Stepford-like sorority. She’s far better off hanging with unfashionable dorks like herself, who get off reading comic books.
- 6. A bright Southern California high school student is cheated out of going to Stanford, so he drives north with his girlfriend and perpetually fried brother to rectify the situation. There’s an uproarious evening in Palo Alto, but there’s also the kindness of a writer in residence, encouraging the student in his literary ambitions.
- 7. The struggles of an unhappy, uncaring college English professor (Dennis Quaid) who, perhaps too predictably, regains his humanity and his touch in the classroom. And his book gets published! Ellen Page plays as his elitist, Republican daughter.
- 8. This pro-nerd feature seemed radical in a time before Comic-Con and new-media geeks. Today, it’s still a hoot to watch the outcast computer science majors, in an alliance with a dorky woman, an Asian, a gay man, and a black fraternity, foil the repellent white-boy Greeks.
- 12. A crass, coarse, but sociable hero in his seventh year of hedonistic fun at Coolidge College. This movie was so popular that it prompted two even stupider sequels.
- 13. A tale of race relations at a contemporary university. The movie segues between white and African-American students, showing their glaringly different perspectives on the same issues.
- 15. On a fall night in 2003, a Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, he becomes the youngest billionaire in history... but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications. Like!
- 17. A 1950s art historian passes on her unorthodox wisdom to impressionable Wellesley students.
Down
- 1. In 1962, college freshmen Lawrence "Larry" Kroger and Kent Dorfman seek to join a fraternity at Faber College. They visit the prestigious Omega Theta Pi House's invitational party, but are not welcomed there. They then try next door at Delta Tau Chi House, where Kent's brother was once a member, making Kent a "legacy". There they find John "Bluto" Blutarsky urinating outside the fraternity house. The Deltas "need the dues" so they permit Larry and Kent to pledge, giving them the fraternity names "Pinto" and "Flounder".
- 3. Eccentric, intelligent kids rejected from college open their own pretend university in a painted-over mental institution. The fake campus actually has a philosophy by which students teach and
- 4. It’s corny, shameless American Dream stuff, but audiences love this unpretentious story of the stubborn little guy who, against the odds, wills himself onto the Notre Dame football team.
- 5. Mike Wazowski and James P. Sullivan weren't always an inseparable pair. From the moment this mismatched couple met they couldn’t stand each other. This movie reveals how Mike and Sulley overcame their differences and became the best of friends.
- 8. Precocious science nerds at a high-powered California university who, not knowing it, are involved by the wicked dean in a paramilitary plot involving high-tech weaponry. The film centers on a rising-star science student who also, far more important, is a disheveled party animal.
- 9. It’s improbable if not impossible that an untrained Southie janitor could do advanced algebra, but who is going to argue with the unfathomable success of this schmaltzy MIT-set tale?
- 10. Married men will be boys! Pining for the dude camaraderie and, yes, the beers and chicks of bachelorhood, three post-30 amigos set up a fraternity house on the edge of campus so they can party like undergrads.
- 11. Shelley is living a carefree life until a rival gets her tossed out of the Playboy Mansion. With nowhere to go, fate delivers her to the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. Unless they can sign a new pledge class, the seven socially clueless women will lose their house to the scheming girls of Phi Iota Mu. In order to accomplish their goal, they need Shelley to teach them the ways of makeup and men; at the same time, Shelley needs some of what the Zetas have – a sense of individuality. The combination leads all the girls to learn how to stop pretending and start being themselves.
- 14. Beca is that girl who'd rather listen to what's coming out of her headphones than what's coming out of you. Arriving at Barden College, she finds herself not right for any clique but somehow is muscled into one that she never would have picked on her own, an accapella group – The Barden Bellas. When Beca takes the group out of their world of traditional arrangements and perfect harmonies into all-new mash-ups, they fight to climb their way to the top of the cutthroat world of college a cappella.
- 16. This fluffy girl-out-of-water tale of a California sorority bubblehead who makes it big in the stuffy Ivy League found an audience, leading to a sequel and a Broadway musical