SYNOPSIS

Four recently graduated college roommates spend their last summer in a small town, experiencing their changing friendships, the relationships with the women in their lives, and the possibility that their alma mater might be shut down due to new administration.

In this outrageous independent comedy, Nathan (Jonathan Dicks), Dom (Christopher Clark Cowan), Justin (Noah Applebaum), and Bob (Brandon Lea) move into their recently deceased Dean's house and start partying. Their good times get a bit set back upon learning that the new President of their university, President Garlin (Elizabeth Laidlaw), intends to shut down their art school and turn it into a business school. As Nathan does everything he can to keep their art school active and alive, his roommates continue to party and pick up girls, leading to a concluding confrontation between the students and President Garlin, and a subsequent final party at their house that ends with disastrous results.

A surprisingly realistic and unexpectedly emotional film about academic life, "Eastern College" is the award-winning debut feature film from writer/director James Francis Flynn, based on his own experiences during his time at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.


Director's Statement

The idea behind "Eastern College" was to take a lot of the cliches and stereotypes about college students -- that they are too interested in drinking, sex, and partying -- and turn them on their head. I wanted to take characters that initially could come off as stock and give them real emotions, depth, and subtext.

When you look back at your college years, how much of it that you remember actually involves being in a classroom? I wanted to show college more realistically than it is usually portrayed in film: as a time of development in person's life that, while educational and fun, can cause growing pains and lead to the unexpected.

-- James Francis Flynn

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