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
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If I saw my guidance counselor I would kick him in the nuts.
Pineapple Tangaroa laughed. It s not that the Austinite wasn t fascinated with anthropology enough to study it at Kent State University. He just didn t realize that an undergraduate degree alone in that discipline would be a professional dead end . something his advisor clearly forgot to mention. He knew I didn t want to go for my master s degree and not once did he bring up that if you don t get a master s, there really isn t a career for you in anthropology.
So, upon graduating in 2004, Tangaroa did what people with useless bachelor s diplomas do: entry level work in an unrelated field. Abhorring the frigid Ohio winters, he returned to his previous stomping grounds of San Marcos and worked a couple of lousy piercing gigs and a warehouse job. After repeated rejection, he made an inroad into Austin s body art scene, being hired at Mercy Piercing Studios. Concurrently, he found a mentor in late local legend Daryl Bear
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 months ago when she moved to New York City.
Northeast Ohio native Brandon LaGanke co-directing feature film debut, ‘Drunk Bus’
Updated May 12, 2021;
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CLEVELAND, Ohio It was an ironic twist of fate that considering the world over the last year was stuck at home living its own “Groundhog Day”-like experience, streaming services offered a number of loop movies where characters experience the same day over and over again before discovering some level of self-fulfillment.
Taking a different approach to the same feeling is Northeast Ohio native Brandon LaGanke’s new film “Drunk Bus,” which highlights the worst kind of literal loop working a dead-end job with no end in sight.