Answer This! Michigan Movie on Netflix
Back in 2011, the board had several threads discussing the movie Answer This! It was filmed on campus and was in limited release. I never saw it but wanted to. Today I was poking around Netflix and stumbled on it. The story isn't great but it's not bad. The setting is tremendous.
If you are looking for some light entertainment with a Michigan spin, you should be pleased.
And now I know what I'm doing tonight. Thanks for posting!
I'm an extra in the film along with my wife. It's an entertaining flick
you do know, his dad is a Dr. Ralph Williams, of the most engaging english professors at the University...
quite sure how I feel about this comment and anything huge about another man.
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just wait till you find out he's actually gay. then you'll really be conflicted.
Sweet! Good timing with Sporcle Live Detroit semifinals starting next week.
I'd agree that the movie was just alright. The man cool part of the film (and this was really cool) was recognizing all the places on and around campus. Still it was certainly worth a watch and I'd recommend it to anyone who went to UM.
Hey, I'm hoping to use this thread as a jumping board for identifying a movie I've been hunting a long time.
I think it's a movie from somewhere in the late-70s to early-90s. Like the O.P.'s film, this one's characters attended the University of Michigan. In fact I believe campus provided the entire setting--with the only scenes I remember happening in some sort of large dorm room or apartment with a fireplace. If I'm not mistaken, the characters were grad students.
I can't remember anything about the plot (I know, I know). I can barely remember anything except for Michigan sweatshirts and, well, maybe some snow. The tone of the movie might fall somewhere between Dead Poets Society and The Breakfast Club. I want to find it so badly, but as you can tell have very few items here that are googlable.
Does any of this mean anything to any of you?
Ari Gold went to law school at Michigan. Hug it out bitch.
w/tremendous sound track. Been lots of good movies though set in Michigan, especially those along the coast like American Pie.
I THINK THAT IS IT!
Most genuinely: Thank you.
@Carriismyhomeboy : Great movie, however it was filmed in Beaufort, SC.
I like the comparison of Breakfast Club to Big Chill.. hilarious. One was a post-pubescent coming of age flick, the other a post thirty-something coming of death flick. Not that they were all about to die, but suddenly more mindfult that youth and college days gone forever.
I believe Jack Wangler was the QB on TV during one of the scenes. There's also the obligatory bitching about Bo in the movie, just like many of us so enjoyed doing back then.
Yes, lived in Beaufort, SC, and The Big Chill was filmed there, (partly because it is Tom Berenger’s hometown). The house; which was depicted as being on this massive plantation-sized piece of property large enough for a football game, is actually located on a corner in a residential area, surrounded by a swamp on other two sides and butts up to the road with iron fence on two sides. Amazed me how the cropped everything out for the movie.
This was my acting debut. I'm uncredited student #3 in several Ralph Williams teaching scenes.
Ok maybe I'm just jealous. Or drunk. Dammit I wish I was in AA. That's Ann Arbor btw, I swear I don't have a problem...until gamedays.
The movie is written, directed and produced by Mike and Chris Ferrah, whose father is a prominate dentist in A2. Mike ferrah is a producer for Funny of Die and kind of manages productions for Adam McCay. Chris is a writer on a bunch of stuff. I donated a couple hundred toward this movies production. While both grew up in A2, Mike went to UM, Chris is an IU grad.
I could have it backwards as to who went to UM and didn't. Our parents are friends and their dad is my dentist, but I do not know them very well.
Gonna watch it tonight- without paying for it on putlocker.
Thug life.
Don't expect anything spectacular
"The Rivalry" is free on youtube... Our firstborn turns a month old this week and we'll watch it on the tablet when we have a rough morning.
I was thinking the same thing.
Great to see the campus so much... plus Arielle Kebbel makes it easy to watch too.
I loved the nod to MGoBlog at the end of the movie with Rilo Kiley A Better Son Better Daughter. I really doubt that they just somehow found that song without watching the MGoBlog video.
Just a guess. And as everyone has said the movie was just okay but it was just so nostalgic.
I watched this last night after seeing this thread. I thought there were a few unnecessary plot choices that made it creepy instead of fun. If they want the main character to be an 8th year grad student, who would have to be at least 30 years old, why make the love interest a freshman? The friend would be a lot more sympathetic if he weren't such a wannabe lecher, too.
Aside from that, the plot's interesting enough, and I'm impressed that they got Ralph to do it. I love that they worked in some of his actual lecturing quirks (e.g., his rubrics). Filming at the 8 Ball was a great idea, too. It's just too bad they didn't get more bars involved (and, of course, no self-respecting 8th year grad student hangs out at the Espresso Royale on South U).
Yeah, it could have just as easily been a senior taking a victory lap or just a second year grad student that dated a freshman. The conflicts of differing social scenes would have been the same, the realization that everyone has to move on would still have been there, and it would have been a bit more realistic.
Maybe too realistic for some (not that I'm saying I was exactly that, oh wait, yeah maybe I pretty much was).
People have said it - it's a great movie for UM nostalgia reasons, the story was fine and even moving, but there was a little that lacked in execution. I would recommend it to anyone affiliated with the U or academia in general, but I wouldn't be pushing it on others.
Agreed on Espresso Royale. I only went to ER when I was being cheap. If I wanted decent coffee I was going to Comet Coffee in Nichols Arcade.
Also, they were originally going to name the movie Trivial Pursuits, which would have been a much, much better name for several obvious metaphorical reasons. They were unable to get the licsensing I guess.
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