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Van Wilder: Ryan Reynolds
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When Van Wilder released in 2002, it inspired a genre of American campus capers. The film mirrored (albeit an exaggerated reality) the trials and tribulations of a generation experimenting with the American Greek system, drinks, drugs, sex and some more drinks and even more sex. Van Wilder starred Ryan Reynolds in the title role along with Tara Reid [Images].
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To Van Wilder (Ryan Reynolds), college doesn't get you ready for life, it is life. So when his father puts a stop to his cash flow, it looks like the party might finally be over for Van. Down, but not out, Van, and his team devise a series of money-making schemes that soon come to the attention of the college magazine, who send out sexy college reporter Gwen (Tara Reid) to do a feature on the infamous Van Wilder, Party Liaison to boost their circulation figures.
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Van Wilder (Ryan Reynolds) is a rich kid working on his 7th year at college. Loving the lifestyle but taking time out of his busy day to tutor kids on the fine art of partying, Van sees no end to his collegiate career. That is, until his father (Tim Matheson, who must owe favors to National Lampoon), decides to cut off Van' s tuition payments. Van, broke and short of the credits needed to graduate, decides to give it the college try and attempts to get a diploma. And with the help of a perky college newspaper reporter (Tara Reid, "American Pie"), Van can ... deal with the evil DIK fraternity (get it?), who would like nothing more than to see Van get kicked out of school.
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Van Wilder (Ryan Reynolds) may be about to begin his seventh year at Coolidge College, but that doesn't mean he has plans to graduate anytime soon. After all, if you love a place so much, why leave? In fact, he's so hell-bent on staying in school, that when his rich father (Tim Matheson) cuts him off, he turns his party-throwing skills into a business to pay his tuition. Wilder meets his match in the form of Gwen Pearson (Tara Reid), a super-hot journalism major who's out to expose the campus celebrity for the slacker that he is. When the ultra-cool Wilder finds the sexy reporter too hot to handle, he winds up falling in love and actually thinks about leaving his college days behind for good.
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Van Wilder (Ryan Reynolds) might be starting his seventh year at Coolidge College, but graduation is the furthest thing from his mind. Armed with a personal assistant and a coterie of admirers, Van has reached the status of living legend on campus, throwing bashes that make geeks popular, raise money for charity and generally "inspire the uninspired." But when Van's father refuses to pay any more of his son's tuition bills, Van must turn to party planning for profit in order to continue living in under-graduate bliss, thereby becoming the subject of an exposé by disapproving school journalist Gwen Pearson (Tara Reid). What begins as a clash of wills... soon leads to unexpected romance as Van and Gwen both realize they have a lot to learn from each other. The only problem: Gwen's self-obsessed, frat house boyfriend, Richard, who's determined, at any cost, to put a stop to Van's rule as campus king.
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To its credit, "Van Wilder" has some very funny moments. Kal Pen’s quite mirthful as Taj Mahal, Wilder’s assistant for hire in search of the valley between a woman’s legs, and the mindless pranks Wilder and nemesis, Richard (Daniel Cosgrove) play on each other take you back to some of the memorably riotous moments of National Lampoon’s Animal House. As Wilder, Ryan Reynolds is ... in his element. Pert, Boyish, and Lively…just the high-strung puppet needed for the lead. And although Tara Reid is passable, her over-tanned skin color in the film – she’s almost orange! – Is enough to put even the keenest of mandarin eaters off!
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