Product Details

• Actors: Stephen Mailer, Grahame Wood, Kristy Swanson, Daniel R. Gerson, Stan Brown
• Directors: Doug Liman
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Vidmark / Trimark
• VHS Release Date: April 27, 1999
• Run Time: 94 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 630327322X
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #26,187 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great teen summer flick about getting in to college., June 8, 1999

By A Customer

Parental pressure forces this kid to try to bribe his way off the Waitng List and into Princeton University. Trouble is, another kid is trying to murder them. Lots of ghoulish fun and a love story that isn't yucky. Dave Chappelle is a totally fun computer nerd and Stephen Mailer is cute. Andrew McCarthy is spooky. Calista Flockhart and Matt Perry have small roles, but they are funny. Great for date nites or pajama parties. My gang loved it.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Darkly Humorous, December 24, 1998

By	[e-mail] (Baltimore, Maryland, USA) - See all my reviews

It is light unambitious film that tickles the funny bone a fair bit with ghoulish jokes about killing people with style. This is not a bad film but it never reaches the true tongue-in-cheek styles of "How I Got Into College" or the morbid grace of "Heathers". Somewhere it falls short and in this kind of picture that means the script. The dialogue is not snappy enough and you kind of wish the psychopath would kill the pathetic hero of the picture. But there are a few chuckles that beat other 3 a.m. cable fare. The acting is not bad but I don't get the feeling it was suppose to be great either. The comedy arrangement is one innocent man, one deranged psychopath, one pretty co-ed, and a Med-School Wait List. So if you don't mind guessing the end at the beginning and never being truly surprised then this picture can give you some interesting laughs.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Somewhat funny, but doesn't cut it., May 4, 1999

By A Customer

Getting In is an... interesting film, but after a while it becomes a dismal bore. Some parts of the film are funny, but usually it is pretty lame, and doesn't REALLY make the murderer a mystery. In "Getting In", Medical Students are mysteriously killed after being bribed off of the waiting list into Johns Hopkins Medical School. It's a little humorous and interesting at times, but other than that, it's a bore. And DON'T let the photos of Calista Flockhart and Matthew Perry on the cover of the film's recent re-release fool you... they have a total of 6 minutes airtime together, and I am not kidding.