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National Lampoon's Animal House is a 1978 comedy film in which a misfit group of fraternity boys take on the system at their college. The movie was adapted by Douglas Kenney, Christopher Miller and Harold Ramis from stories written by Miller based on his experiences in the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity at Dartmouth College, Ramis's experiences in the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity at Washington University in St. Louis, and published in National Lampoon magazine. It was directed by John Landis. It is considered to be the movie that started the gross-out genre.