Shithouse

Every once in a while you come across a true slice o' life movie that comes this close to reality. Raiff is just a smidge too gentle and Gelula a tad too harsh (if oddly alluring), but it still works fairly well. No cheap tricks, either, such as the Defining Character Death (except for the turtle). Congrats to Raiff and Gelula.

As a college student, I can attest to the tonal and plot accuracy this movie achieves. It does that really well, but is the average day to day life of a college student trying to adjust to being away from home, while constantly shooting himself in the foot make for an entertaining movie? No. Is it worth a full length film? Also, no. This would have been a great 45 minute short. But the tedious and awkward, albeit accurate and realistic, dialogue which takes up the vast majority of this movie, runs dry far before the movie ends. I'm sure some people can relate to the movie enough to find this quite enjoyable, but I'm not one of them. Regardless, I think the is a successful debut for Raiff, as far as debuts go.

The title of this movie is quite misleading, and that is the only significant flaw with this film.

If you are looking for a raunchy college comedy like the title suggests it might be, then you may be disappointed, however you are more likely to be surprised in a good way.

The movie, while within the college party setting, is actually a very meaningful and real emotional drama with great insight into the anxieties and loneliness accompanied with the college experience.

So glad to have come across this film. Such a warm, lovely, sometimes painful slice of that time of life. Cooper's film is such an accurate depiction of those early struggles away from home, trying to separate, to make real connections in an environment where that is so often not the norm, even the outcast.

Cooper(and his character)is all heart, so sincere, so earnest, so appealing in every way. On the one hand it is hard to believe that at 23, he could both write and act so beautifully but then again who could do it better than both the adolescent and young man who lived it. How fortunate that Mark Duplass recognized Cooper's gift and moved it along for us all to experience.

Looking forward to Cooper Raiff's next film/films!

I think they were trying to be artsy with this movie but it was ridiculous and boring. I kept hoping something would happen but nothing ever did. What a misleading name for a movie too. They want you to think it is like Animal House when it is really just an annoying couple that won't shut up yet manage to say nothing.