| | | It's not just a place. It's a state of mind.|It's not just a movie, it's a state of mind.
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Dolby, Digital Audio, English, Dolby Digital (5.1)
Rising young stars Colin Hanks and Schuyler Fisk head up an outstanding cast including Jack Black (Shallow Hal), Catherine O'Hara (Home Alone), John Lithgow (3rd Rock From The Sun), Harold Ramis and Lily Tomlin in this outrageous coming-of-age comedy. Shaun Brunder (Hanks) is content to be a bright, talented, but unfocused Southern California surf slacker--until the day he discovers a novel by acclaimed author Martin Skinner. Inspired, he suddenly realizes his life's ambition: to leave behind mind-numbing Orange County and study creative writing with Skinner at Stanford University. But after being denied enrollment due to an admissions error, Shaun is forced to seek help from not only his girlfriend Ashley (Fisk) but also his hopelessly dysfunctional parents (O'Hara & Lithgow), stoner brother Lance (Black), and a hilarious set of circumstances to make his dream of escaping his hometown nightmare a reality.
"Fun at full tilt!" Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"A treat. A comedy with an equal share of wit and heart." Andrew Johnston, US Weekly
Editor's Note
ORANGE 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.
| Features | Commentary By Director Jane Kasdan And Writer Mike White | | 4 Deleted Scenes | | Scene Selection | | Theatrical Trailer | | 15 Interstitials | | Widescreen Version, Enhanced For 16X9 TVs | | Audio: English 5.1 Dolby Digital, Dolby Surround; French Dolby Surround | | Subtitles: English |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Paramount |
| Release Date: 2/13/2007 |
| Running Time: 82 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2002 | | Catalog ID: 335924 | | UPC: 00097363359241 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 2.35:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Rolling Stone
"...Hanks and Fisk are charming....[The cast] keeps the fun at full tilt. It's the new year's first happy surprise..." 01/31/2001 p.58Variety
"...Hanks is an agreeably appealing leading man....Catherine O'Hara is in terrific comic form..." 01/14/2002 p.49-56 Entertainment Weekly
"...Offbeat....ORANGE COUNTY is peachy..." 01/18/2002 p.55 Box Office
"...Hanks is an amiable hero....Hanks carries his lead role with confident ease....Fisk is appealing..." 03/01/2002 p.61 Sight and Sound
"...[The film has] plenty of laughs....[It's] tailor-made for Black..." 04/01/2002 p.54 Los Angeles Times
"...O'Hara and Black could give courses on comic expressiveness and timing..." 01/11/2002 p.C4 Total Film
"...Kasdan clearly has a deep and highly contagious affection for his characters..." 12/01/2002 p.114 Chicago Sun-Times 7 of 10
...one of those happy projects where everything seems to fall naturally into place... The movie's cast looks like a roll call from the comedy hall of fame.. [the director] is still in his mid-20's but is sure-footed and has a nice skewed sense of comic timing... - Roger Ebert
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