FRESHMAN YEAR
Wigging out: Sam (Logan Miller, left) and Alex (Cooper Raiff).
★★★★
OUT 1 OCTOBER (DIGITAL) CERT 15 / 101 MINS
DIRECTOR Cooper Raiff
CAST Cooper Raiff, Dylan Gelula, Amy Landecker, Logan Miller, Olivia Welch
PLOT Alex (Raiff) is a student in his first year at college, his first time away from home. He’s lonely and struggling. An evening spent with Maggie (Gelula) changes the way he sees things. But when Maggie ignores him the following day, can he still salvage his college experience?
IN THE US, this film goes by the name of Shithouse, the kind of title which implies a college movie in the Animal House tradition: all about getting drunk, getting laid, and occasionally puking. The blandly-renamedbut-eminently-more-marketable Freshman Year deals in all three traditions — but, in a refreshingly revolutionary move, suggests that they might not always be healthy.