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National Lampoon's Animal House (also called Animal House) is a 1978 comedy film in which a misfit group of Delta fraternity boys takes on the system at their college. It stars John Belushi, Tim Matheson, Karen Allen, John Vernon , Thomas Hulce, Cesare Danova , Peter Riegert , Mary Louise Weller , Stephen Furst, James Daughton , Bruce McGill , Mark Metcalf , James Widdoes , Martha Smith , Kevin Bacon and Donald Sutherland.

The movie was adapted by Douglas Kenney, Christopher Miller and Harold Ramis from stories that had originally been written by Miller and published in National Lampoon magazine. It was directed by John Landis. In 2001 the United States Library of CongressThe Library of Congress the unofficial national library of the United States, is one of the most important libraries in the world. Originally founded as a research library for the United States Congress April 24th 1800, its original collection were the bo deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film RegistryThe National Film Registry is the registry of films selected by the United States National Film Preservation Board for preservation in the Library of Congress. The board, established by the National Film Preservation Act of 1988, was reauthorized in 1992.

This movie was filmed at the University of OregonThe University of Oregon (UO) is located in Eugene. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class (five students) two years later. The school colors are green and yellow. Former Oregon attorney general Dave Frohnmayer is the president of and features numerous buildings from that campus and the surrounding area.

Tagline: It was the Deltas against the rules... the rules lost!

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