Sorority movies
 

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ok, this movie isn't about a sorority but its the closest thing I could think of. During Rush it was brought to my attention that the movie "Steel Magnolias" was well of course first based on a book, and the book was based on the true life story of a Phi Mu. If you look at the bulletin board in her room, you can see Phi Mu letters of some sort. and if you notice her wedding is in all pink, with pink carnations, which is the flower and color of Phi Mu.
That was as helpful as I can be!
(my best friend is a Phi Mu, if you can tell)

Tori
Alpha Gamma Delta
High Point University
Cool Kids 2000!

I saw this movie of the week thing on NBC a couple of summers ago.I think it was called Dying to Belong. It was a sororities are bad and they haze kind of movie, but it was funny becuase it is SO untrue. I don't know how to get a copy, but i wouldn't mind seeing it again. Does anybody here know where I can find this movie?

Oh yeah...I forgot about the critically acclaimed "Dying to Belong" with that reject Sixx girl from Blossom! That was SO STUPID! It was so bad that every chapter on my campus sent letters (individual and collective) to NBC (I think that's right) to try and get them to show something positive! Of course no one wants to hear that - we're all just a bunch of drunks who want to be with a different frat boy every night http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/rolleyes.gif

I agree - A League of Their Own - was about as close to a true sorority as ever...think about the players - some were beautiful, some weren't, some were wild, some reserved, some were leaders, some were followers! And even though they played for "rival" teams, they supported a common cause! I absolutely LOVED that movie. I wish they would present Greeks in the positive light for a change!

Wow, I never really considered a League of Their Own as a good rep of sorority life -- but it really is! I'll have to watch it again now that it was mentioned.

Asia

You know, I never realized "A League of Our Own" is a depiction of the way sororities should be! There's gotta be at least one movie out there (even if it's a small, independently-made film) which portrays sororities in a positive light. The movies that come to my imagination (the aforementioned bad pledge movie, "Animal House", "School Daze", etc.) all portray Greeks as hard drinkers, hazers, elitists, etc.
One movie does come to mind, though--it's not really about a sorority so much as it is about the college climate in Alabama during the 1950's--"Heart of Dixie", with Ally Sheedy. She's a sorority member who works against segregation, and how her activism gets her in trouble with her sorority and school. I think it's based on some woman's life story, but maybe not--it could just be based on actual events that happened to more than one person.
Even though I'm not a film major, I may have to change my major so I can make a decent sorority film!

“Heart of Dixie” was based on a book called “Heartbreak Hotel” by Anne Rivers Siddons (who is a Tri-Delt alum). She wrote another book called “Outer Banks” which was about 4 sorority sisters reuniting after 25 years. It flashed back to their time in college also. The whole time my mom was reading it she was asking me things like “What’s a legacy?”

Speaking of Animal House, it was on this weekend. Have you ever noticed the Omegas’ (the mean nasty fraternity) crest looks like a Sigma Chi crest?!?! I wonder if that was intentional?

Everyone gives Animal House a bad rap, but you have to remember that at the time (in 1978) campuses were just getting over dealing with Vietnam and going back to fraternities seemed like something carefree and positive, toga parties included. I’ve also read statistics that Greek membership went up something like 60% as a result of that movie.

Another good movie to consider, which shows both fraternity and sorority highlights (serenading, candle passes, etc...) is Fraternity Row. It's hard to find, though - I last saw it on HBO three years ago and taped it. Although the story has a very sad ending (consequences of hazing and refusal to accept positive change) - the movie is a good one, showing greek life in the early 60's setting. Good funny moments as well.

This is my first time on this....those were some great movie selections! I never thought of some of those before! We had a movie night and all our Blockbuster had was "Sority House Massacre 4" Very, very bad!! We got it thinking it probably makes fun of sororities, so we thought it would be funny, but man, you would think it was a soft porn! I don't know about your sororities, but ours never changes together and then walks through the house half naked!

I totally love "Animal House", but my friends who are anti-Greek constantly used it as an example of why I shouldn't rush...so, it gives a negative opinion of the Greek system to some people (also, I have friends who go to Dartmouth, so their opinion of the movie is somewhat colored!).

Also, does anyone know the name of the book "Steel Magnolias" was based upon? I thought it was based upon a play, and not a book.

There was a movie on TV recently, I think it's called "Now & Then." It's about 4 girls who grow up best friends during the 60's...Rosie O'Donnell and Demi Moore are in it, I believe. I didn't get to see it all the way through, but what I saw was awesome. These girls were more than friends, they were sisters.

I don't know if it's uplifting, but the most true to sorority life movie I've seen is Fraternity Row. It's an older movie that's on HBO once every blue moon.

I saw Fraternity Row on HBO in April 2000. I heard that the movie was based on true events. Is this true?

There is a movie called "School Daze." This movie is based on and about a historically black college and the stereotypes, adversities and issues that arise between black greek letter organizations and college life, overall. Although you sound like a white sorority-no offense http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif, it's a good movie to watch if you want to compare it to other sorority movies http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

Yes it is true. There is a book, Broken Pledges by Hank Neuwer, and he makes reference to the movie. I have seen the movie also. I've also seen Animal house(one of my favorites), and School Daze by Spike Lee.

Local Sororities, I really can't think of one positive movie that is specifically about sororities. I think the 'league their own' is a good suggestion.

Ok, so this movie does not give us, by any means a positive showing on sorority life, but Sorority House Massacure, is a damn funny movie. We actually rented it for a rush event and made fun of it! The girls who came to our event thought that it was sooo funny that we were laughing at how ridulous this movie was....it really put everyone at ease. Renting this movie has become a classic event in our house.

What? I thought girls always had naked pillow fights! You just ruined my image of women! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/wink.gif

One movie which I still find quite funny (it is not very positive for the Greek image though) is "Revenge of the Nerds".

On another note, someone had mentioned positive women-bonding movies like "A League of Their Own". I saw a documentary called "The Bunny Years" which was all about the Playboy Bunnies. Note: The Playboy Bunnies were the waitresses in the Playboy NightClubs, not to be confused with the "Playmates" who posed nude in the magazines. Anyhow, it was quite an interesting documentary about how the girls made lots of money to put themselves through college and that they were quite protected in the club. They were not allowed to socialize with the patrons, and the patrons were not allowed allowed to touch them. Any
patron who did not comply was then ejected from the bar. It was an interesting documentary.

Mocha,
I don't know if it's true, but it could very well be! It's so sad at the end when the idealistic boy played by Gregory Harrison died. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/frown.gif I did relate to the sorority girls though there were a few like that in the chapter that did not invite change at all!


Stargirl

hey...revenge of the nerds was kinda cool...

i've seen all 3.

I've heard that the fraternities in Revenge of the Nerds is actually based on real fraternities, does anyone know if there's any truth to that?

Also, here's another good movie to watch as far as sisterhood goes: Little Women (the version in which Liz Taylor plays Amy, the youngest sister, although in the movie Beth is portrayed as the youngest.) Although the story is about 4 real-life sisters, a lot of the values and virtues they embody with respect to each other, their family, and the community is simply timeless, and besides which it's just a beautiful story. I doubt there'll be a dry eye in the sorority house after watching this one!!



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equeen
A Lioness has her Pride!
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Alpha Sigma Kappa - Women in Technical Studies

While it's not an uplifting comedy by any means, the movie "Followers", inspired by actual racial hazing incidents from 1993, previews at New York's Quad Cinema this October 13th.

If you want to catch the flick, it should be at a theater near you later in the Fall. You can check out the film's website at:
www.followers.com

Actually, MaMaBuddha, there are FOUR Revenge of the Nerds movies; the fourth being "Nerds In Love" In it Booger gets married to an Omega Mu (Corinne Bohrer) who is the daughter of a rich man whose family is stuck-up and anti-nerd and one of the family members try to discredit Booger by saying he had a child out of wedlock. It really isn't a college frat movie per se except a lot of alumni from ROTN parts 1-3 are in it.

BTW, did you know that in ROTN II, there is a scene in the conference meeting room that has all the "NIC" fraternity coats of Arms in the background, THEY ARE REAL FRATERNITES, only the letters and the colors have changed. The most noticeable is the Alpha Phi Alpha one in the foreground (right behind the main podium, only it has the Greek letters Delta Pi, but all the other features in APhiAs coat of Arms is distinguishable. I also saw Omega Psi Phis shield in red with the letters Alpha Nu in the middle. There were some other NIC fraternities modified in a similar fashion.

Another little known fraternity fact.

Yes, it was based on the hazing death of a Kappa Sigma pledge at USC in 1959.

I just had to bring this back up to the top because I saw a cheesy sorority movie this weekend. It's called Confessions of Sorority Girls and it has Jamie Luner(Lexie form Melrose Place), Alyssia Miliono(Same from Who's the Boss) and Brian Bloom.

I can't even describe how cheesy this movie is. It makes a Tori Spelling movie seem like Oscar material

Brother Steve you are a bad boy!!!!! LOL
My all time had to be Animal House as the local I started was nearly right on to a small degreeeeeee!
When I graduated, I thought about writing a story about my Fraternity life and I said NNAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWW, who would want to read that. Well low and behold it came out 2 yrs. later and I thought it was a hoot. Unfortunitally there are still Fraternity/Soroitys who still use the paddle for more than symbolism.

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Tom Earp LX Z#1
Pittsburg State U. (Kansas)

Rain Man, you worry me sometimes. Get out and take a walk in the sun. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/wink.gif

I can't believe that no one has mentioned one of my favorite Greek movies!! It's called "Little Sister" and it features Alyssa Milano and Jonathan Silverman. The basic premise is that Silverman is a fraternity pledge whose pledgemaster tells to steal the composite of a sorority's founders, so he dresses up in drag and poses as a female rushee in order to "pledge" this sorority and get access to the composite. In the meantime, he falls for one of the sisters (who ends up being his Big). It's really a good positive movie about Greek life, although there are a few stereotypical scenes in it. If you haven't seen it, you need to check it out...it would be a GREAT movie for a sisterhood night or something like that.

While the original is dominant over the other Nerds movies (Ooh, ah, alpha beta - ooh ah . . .), the second has one of the most clever scenes in it from any movie - the altering of the "HOTel cORAL esSEX" sign for the party; who comes up w/ that? Funniest concept joke ever, and it's from a movie subtitled "Nerds In Paradise". Also classic:
Q: What if dog was spelled C - A - T ?
A: That's pretty deep, Ogre.

My boyfriend is an Alpha and he noticed that one right away. He nearly broke his neck getting out of the chair to get a closer look. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

Does anyone know where i can get a copy of the fraternity Row? I have been told about it and would like to get a copy. Any help would be appreciated.

[This message has been edited by OX1592 (edited March 30, 2001).]

now, was that necessary??? of course i am not a member of omega psi phi (or any other organization) but i do have family and friends who are proud omega men and would not appreciate you referring to them as such.



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I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean ? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind

I was thinking the same thing, but I just couldnt remember the title. I've seen it too and its a great movie. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif

For the record, MeezDiscreet, the name of the fraternity referred to by 33girl was called Omega Theta Pi, or to abbreviate, Q-T-Pis http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/wink.gif http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif. They were mostly a ritzy, uppity frat. As another Greekchatter said, there was NO relation b/t the Q-T-Pis and the Ques.

Hope this helps
RM

Thanks Laura & RainMan! See, if I was a trivia buff like RM I would have remembered the whole name of the fraternity. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/wink.gif

well, then 33gril, i do apologize. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

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I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean ? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind

Hi all!
Just saw "Everybody's All American" on t.v. yesterday - with Dennis Quaid, Jessica Lang, John Goodman, Timothy Hutton- it was not only really good but it starts out at LSU (they are the tigers right?) so neat stuff about the school is in it for all my LSU Greek Chatters but also - the girlfriend is in a sorority and they show a beautiful positive pinning scene! The movie made me want to trade my East Coast life for something Southern!! Rent it!!

LICO! Sue

Hey Symphony,

The college scenes were filmed at LSU. My aunt was the wardrobe mistress for the movie
and I was an extra. My best parts are on the cutting room floor! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/rolleyes.gif

The football scene was filmed at half time during an actual game. For about two weeks prior, attendees were asked to dress 50's style. It was great!! Also, the pinning scene took place at the Kappa Delta house.

aopirose- that is so neat- now I will rent it again to catch all those scenes!

What was on the cutting room floor if you know- I'd like to find out what good stuff I missed!

Sue aka Symphony http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

I had forgotten all about "Little Sister". That's a hilarious movie!! It still comes on cable every now and then.