21 AND OVER | FAMILY MOVIE REVIEW INFORMATION FOR PARENTS AND KIDS

"21 AND OVER"
(2013) (Miles Teller, Skylar Austin) (R)

QUICK TAKE:: Comedy: Three college friends get into a night of debauchery when one gets ridiculously drunk, and the other two have to carry him home in time for a medical-school interview.

PLOT:

The night before a big medical-school interview that his domineering father (FRANCOIS CHAU) pulled strings to set up, Jeff Chang (JUSTIN CHON) decides to go out drinking and partying to celebrate his 21st birthday. His companions are a couple of old high school buddies. Casey (SKYLAR AUSTIN) is the more responsible of the two, a straight-laced young man who is going to spend Spring Break interning at a New York investment firm. Miller (MILES TELLER), on the other hand, is a mischievous, profane, and horny undergraduate who parties hard and worries about the consequences later.

After hitting a string of bars, Jeff Chang (he is called both names throughout the movie) is so drunk that he is nearly unconscious. Casey and Miller feel responsible for getting him in that state and only want to get him back home for a few hours of sleep so that he will be fresh for his all-important interview the next morning. One problem. They don't know where his home is in a campus town of 40,000. His ID has his old address and no one seems to know him.

A night of wandering debauchery ensues involving a lot more drinking, along with run-ins with an angry Latina sorority, a wild buffalo that gets out of control, and a violent male cheerleader named Randy (JONATHAN KELTZ) who wants to kill them. Casey, meanwhile, has fallen for Randy's girlfriend, Nicole (SARAH WRIGHT), who is leaving the next day for an adventure trip in South America.

WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT?: Many high school-age teens will want to work around the R rating and try and gain admission to this raunch-fest.

WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: R: For crude and sexual content, pervasive language, some graphic nudity, drugs, and drinking.

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