National Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze

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National Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze
The movie poster for National Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze.
Directed by	David Hillenbrand Scott Hillenbrand
Produced by	James Henrie Mike McBride Albert Miniaci
Written by	Patrick Casey Worm Miller
Starring	Tatyana Ali Boti Bliss Marieh Delfino Cameron Richardson Tony Denman James DeBello Patrick Renna Chris Owen Danielle Fishel Jennifer Lyons Randy Spelling Edwin Hodge
Music by	Peter Rafelson
Distributed by	Showcase Entertainment Inc.
Release date(s)	September 26, 2003
Running time	96 min.
Language	English
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National Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze (2003) is a comedy featuring Tatyana Ali in her first starring role in a movie. The film was directed by the brothers David and Scott Hillenbrand and written by Patrick Casey and Worm Miller. The movie showcases many new and unknown actors and actresses. In addition to Ali the film also features Patrick Renna, Chris Owen, and Danielle Fishel.

The film was theatrically released on September 26th, 2003 and was only available in limited release areas. Due to the aforementioned limited release of the film and the lack of advertisement and promotion, the film grossed about sixty thousand dollars at the U.S. box office.^[1] It made nearly four hundred thousand dollars at the Russian box office in 2004.^[2] Dorm Daze was released on DVD August 10th, 2004 and debuted at number twelve on the DVD rental charts bringing in 2.13 million dollars its first week.^[3]

The film was panned by critics as a sort of knock off of the American Pie series and using the same jokes found in the teen sex comedy genre. A sequel entitled National Lampoon's Dorm Daze 2 was released on DVD September 5th, 2006. Many of the principal actors returned for the sequel including Danielle Fishel and Chris Owen.

The film was shot on location in California. The four major locations in California used for filming were: Los Angeles, San Diego, Castaic, and Balboa Park which is in San Diego.

The film features music from the Ohio based band, Flinch [1].

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[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Dorm Daze unfolds during a crazy afternoon at a university co-ed dormitory in the days before Christmas break when one of the students, Styles McFee (Renna), hires a prostitute named Dominique (Bliss) for his unwitting brother, Booker (Owen), to lose his virginity. Booker prefers to lose his virginity to his long-term sweetheart Rachel (Gable Carr) who lives down the hall. Meanwhile, another student Wang (Paul H. Kim), awaits the arrival of a French foreign exchange student, also named Dominique, who speaks little English. As a series of mistaken identities and mishaps escalate into monumental proportions starting when Wang leaves for work, Dominique the Student arrives and is mistaken for the prostitute by Styles, while Dominique the Hooker is mistaken for the student by others including the two dorm gossip queens Lynne (Lyons) and Marla (Fishel).

Other plotlines involve Adrienne (Richardson), who is targeted by the dorm geek Newmar (Denman), with whom they had a drunken fling the night before. Adrienne tries to find a missing handbag belonging to her friend, Claire (Ali), who is having boyfriend troubles with Tony (Hodge). Adrienne's roommate, Gerri (Delfino), inadvertently gets her hands on another handbag similar looking to Claire's which is filled with $30,000 in cash. Gerri is soon mistaken for a shadowy hitwoman, named Brittany the Snake, by a local gangster named Lorenzo (Courtney Gains). Elsewhere, Pete's (Patrick Cavanaugh) punk friend Cliff (DeBello) enters the dorm when Pete has to go to work. Cliff soon teams up with Dominique the Hooker to find the missing handbag with the cash while the token gay student Foosball (Randy Spelling) works his way through all the plots of this collegiate comedy of Shakespearean proportions.