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USA Today has an article describing four must-see movies for freshmen heading off to college for this first time:

1. Rudy (1993)

Rudy tells the true story of the tenacious Rudy Ruettiger (Sean Astin), who dreams of attending Notre Dame and playing on the Fighting Irish football team even though he’s a scrawny guy with mediocre grades. Almost everyone believes his dream is foolish, but Rudy refuses to quit and overcomes the odds…

2. Legally Blonde (2001)

Legally Blonde follows Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon), a blonde sorority queen who sets out to conquer Harvard Law School for all the wrong reasons: namely, she’s determined to get her boyfriend back. After a shaky start full of ridicule and rejection, Elle hits the books with an enthusiasm she usually reserves for Cosmo and the color pink. She ends up shaming everyone with her brilliance as she begins a stunning legal career…

3. Blue Like Jazz (2012)

Loosely based on Donald Miller’s best-selling memoir of the same name, Blue Like Jazz finds 19-year-old Don arriving at Reed College only to discover the student body is more opposed to his Christian faith than he could have possibly imagined. He abandons it and embraces activities and ideas he would have once considered shameful. By the time the movie’s thought-provoking resolution rolls around, he realizes he has to figure out what he truly believes…

4. Dead Poets Society (1989)

Robin Williams steals every scene in Dead Poets Society as the unconventional prep school English teacher John Keating. Keating enters his teenage students’ traditional, rigid world and turns it upside down by fanning the flames of their creativity, encouraging them to rip pages out of textbooks while making much noise about poetry. More than that, he teaches them to seize the day.

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