National Lampoon's Pledge This!

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National Lampoon's Pledge This!
Directed by William Heins
Written by Cheryl Guerriero
Starring Paris Hilton
Paula Garcés
Sarah Carter
Simon Rex
Kerri Kenney
Holly Valance
Alexis Thorpe
Cinematography Fortunato Procopio
Editing by Michael Matzdorff
Distributed by Pop Films LLC
Release date(s) December 19, 2006
Country USA
Language English
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National Lampoon's Pledge This! is a 2006 comedy film starring celebutante Paris Hilton, who also served as an executive producer.

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When a dorm toilet explodes on the first day back to school, a group of misfit girlfriends are forced to leave their housing and search for a new home. They ultimately decide on pledging a sorority. However, not many sororities are normal at South Beach University. The girls decide to pledge the most popular and exclusive sorority at the university, Gamma Gamma, which is led by president Victoria English. The only reason Victoria plans to let the freshmen pledge is to display diversity, which is a requirement for the "FHM Hottest Sorority In The Country" contest. From then on, Victoria declares war on the girls during "Hell Week" but ultimately lets them join, only to kick them out once they have won the contest. This angers the leader of the misfit freshmen, Gloria, who declares war on Victoria by sneaking into the Gamma Gamma house and stealing embarrassing photos and video footage of Victoria to show to everyone at the Gamma Gamma victory party. Victoria becomes embarrassed and eventually makes a public apology to the freshmen. The movie ends with a giant food fight at the Gamma Gamma party, and Victoria saying that she loved her cover of "FHM" so much she bought the magazine. Gloria becomes the president of Gamma Gamma the following year.

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[edit] Production

Filming started in early 2004 in Miami, Florida before Hilton even started filming her theatrical debut House Of Wax. Filming finished later that same year and a trailer was released on the movie's official website. However, producers wanted Pledge This! to have an R-rating, which would allow more nudity in the movie. Paris Hilton was appalled by this idea (ironically, House of Wax also ended up getting an R-rating, but not mainly because of nudity). More scenes with nudity were filmed pushing the movie back to mid-2005. Similarly, Victoria English's voiceover throughout the film was recorded by a soundalike, without the participation of Hilton.

Due to the hurricanes that hit Florida in 2005 filming was delayed and then ultimately moved. This pushed the movie back to early 2006. Fans were confused that the trailer had proclaimed this movie as "Paris Hilton's film debut" yet she had already appeared in 2005's House of Wax. Finally in spring of 2006 it was announced that National Lampoon's Pledge This! would be released as an unrated DVD on December 19, 2006. It was also released on a rated R edition. Hilton missed the premiere of the movie at the Cannes Film Festival in protest to the addition of the aforementioned nude scenes. Hilton said, "I was so angry I snubbed my own premiere."[1]

Pledge This! is #11 on IMDB's Bottom 100, with 4,274 votes (as of February 22, 2008). This is the second National Lampoon movie to be in the chart, the first being National Lampoon's Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj. Three other Paris Hilton movies The Hillz, Bottom's Up and The Hottie and the Nottie currently are also listed in the IMDB bottom 100.

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  1. ^ "Too much nudity, protests Paris", 2006-05-30. Retrieved on 2006-05-30. 

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