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Aug 10, 1984 · A group of nerdy college freshmen fight back against the jocks who bully them and form their own fraternity. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this 80s classic.
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- Comedy
- Jeff Kanew
- 1984-08-10
Revenge of the Nerds is a 1984 American comedy film directed by Jeff Kanew and starring Robert Carradine, Anthony Edwards, Ted McGinley, and Bernie Casey. Its plot chronicles a group of nerds at the fictional Adams College trying to stop the ongoing harassment by jock fraternity Alpha Betas and its sister sorority, Pi Delta Pi.
Find out who starred in and worked on the comedy film Revenge of the Nerds, released in 1984. See the full list of actors, directors, writers, producers, and more on IMDb.
A comedy film about nerdy college students who fight back against the jocks who bully them. Read critics' reviews, ratings, and watch the trailer on Rotten Tomatoes.
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- Jeff Kanew
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- Robert Carradine
Revenge of the Nerds is an American comedy franchise. The series revolves around a group of socially-inept students (the nerds) trying to get revenge on their harassers. The series began with the eponymous 1984 film and was followed by three sequels: Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987), Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next ...
- Mary Malloy
- Robert Carradine. The son of actor John Carradine and actress Sonia Sorel, Robert Carradine scored one of his first leading roles with Revenge of the Nerds.
- Anthony Edwards. Before taking television by storm, Anthony Edwards landed his breakout film role as Lewis’ pessimistic best friend. Before Edwards was making people laugh as Gilbert, he was co-starring in ABC’s It Takes Two.
- Julia Montgomery. Before Julia Montgomery was the coveted sister of Pi Delta Pi, she was Samantha Vernon on One Life to Live and Lisa in Up the Creek.
- Michelle Meyrink. Michelle Meyrink is best known as Marcia in the 1983 hit The Outsiders. Prior to her playing Judy, Meyrink appeared in the Nicolas Cage romantic comedy Valley Girl.
At the charity fundraiser, the nerds heavily outsell the Alpha Betas by offering pies with naked pictures of Betty and other Pi Delta Pis on the bottom. During this, Lewis, who has fallen in love with Betty, steals Stan's costume and tricks Betty into engaging in sexual intercourse with him.
