About this product

Product Information

High school student, Shaun Brumder, has his sights set on gaining a place at Stanford University. His dreams are shattered when he receives a letter of rejection after his counsellor sends the wrong papers to Stanford. Now Shaun has just twenty-four hours to reach Stanford and put the record straight...

Product Identifiers

ProducerHerb Gains, Van Toffler, Scott Rudin, David Gale, Adam Schroeder

EAN5014437820334

eBay Product ID (ePID)3958171

Product Key Features

ActorLizzy Caplan, Chevy Chase, Jack Black, John Lithgow, Lily Tomlin, Catherine O'hara, Colin Hanks, Leslie Mann, Kevin Kline, Ben Stiller, Schuyler Fisk, Harold Ramis

Film/TV TitleOrange County

DirectorJake Kasdan

LanguageEnglish

Run Time79 Mins

Aspect Ratio1.78 Wide Screen

FormatDVD

Release Year2003

FeaturesWidescreen, Director and Writers Commentary\2 Deleted Scenes with Commentary\15 Promotional Spots

GenreGeneral, Comedy

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Certificate12A/12

ComposerMichael Andrews

ReviewsLos Angeles Times - ...O'Hara and Black could give courses on comic expressiveness and timing..., Total Film - ...Kasdan clearly has a deep and highly contagious affection for his characters..., Rolling Stone - ...Hanks and Fisk are charming....[The cast] keeps the fun at full tilt. It's the new year's first happy surprise..., Entertainment Weekly - ...Offbeat....ORANGE COUNTY is peachy..., Box Office - ...Hanks is an amiable hero....Hanks carries his lead role with confident ease....Fisk is appealing..., Variety - ...Hanks is an agreeably appealing leading man....Catherine O'Hara is in terrific comic form..., Sight and Sound - ...[The film has] plenty of laughs....[It's] tailor-made for Black...

Additional InformationORANGE COUNTY is a teen comedy that, along with goofy lowbrow fun, offers a surprising amount of wit and heart. Colin Hanks (son of Tom Hanks) stars as Shaun, a carefree California surfer dude who loses a friend to a tsunami. Shaun is contemplating his life when he finds a brilliant novel buried in the sand. He reads it and decides to become a writer himself, and study with the author, who teaches at Stanford. He's eager to leave Orange County, where he lives with his clingy alcoholic mother (Catherine O'Hara) and his burnout brother Lance (a brilliantly debauched Jack Black). When Shaun's guidance counselor (Lily Tomlin) sends the wrong transcript to Stanford, Shaun needs all the help he can get from his seemingly hopeless family to salvage his dream. ORANGE COUNTY was directed by Jake Kasdan (Lawrence Kasdan's son) and written by Mike White (CHUCK & BUCK) who also plays Shaun's illiterate English teacher. Schuyler Fisk (Sissy Spacek's daughter) plays Ashley, Shaun's animal-loving girlfriend, and she and Hanks make an attractive and sympathetic pair. While all kinds of insanity (including hilarious turns by Black, O'Hara, and Harold Ramis) spins around them, the young and dynamic couple remain the soulful center of the film.

ScreenwriterMike White

Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1

Movie/TV TitleOrange County

EditorTara Timpone

Director of PhotographyGreg Gardiner