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More than a year after it was supposed to debut, "Drunk Bus" is now out and available to watch on demand.

Movies about young people doing crazy things while at college have a long history, from Animal House to Revenge of the Nerds to Old School to Neighbors. As t

Wake In Fright (aka  Outback) and Nicolas Roeg’s  Walkabout. Though directed by foreigners (Canadian and English, respectively), they were uniquely Australian stories that set the mold for much of what was to come.  And what came was that, by the decade’s end, such homegrown directors as Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, George Miller, Fred Schepisi, and Philip Noyce were considered among the world’s leading emergent celluloid talents. While movies from Australia (barring the occasional international production shot there) were seldom seen abroad before 1970, by the 19...

Drunk Bus in Kent, Ohio, home to Kent State University. The comedy-drama focuses on Michael (played by Charlie Tahan, best-known for the Netflix series Ozark), a recent college graduate stuck in Kent, where he drives the campus “drunk bus” in a loop each night, picking up inebriated passengers. Things change for him when he's befriended by a tattoo-faced Samoan-American security guard, Pineapple (Pineapple Tangaroa). The movie co-stars Kara Hayward ( Moonrise Kingdom), comedian Dave Hill and Will Forte ( Saturday Night Live and The Last Man on Earth).  Written by Chris Molinaro, i...

Animal House to Old School to Neighbors. As that list of four attests, fraternities (and sometimes sororities) are often the focus of such films, something that can still be funny, but can wind up feeling redundant. The new film Drunk Bus goes in a different direction, much to its benefit. Every night, Michael (Charlie Tahan) drives a bus carrying drunk college kids around the campus of the fictional Kent Institute of Technology in Ohio. As if that thankless job isn’t depressing enough, he’s still obsessing about Amy (Sarah Mezzanotte), his ex-girlfriend who broke up with him nine mon...