ELI PETTIFOG
A BILLY KENT FILM • 2013
Too smart for high school. Too young for college.
Meet Eli, a 14-year-old genius, and Leo, a 41-year-old freshman. Two outsiders. One unexpected friendship.
Starring Alex Wolff, Brendan Fraser, Julia Garner & Parker Posey
2013 · COMEDYWRITTEN & DIRECTED BY BILLY KENTAN UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIP
01 / THE STORY
No one said college had to make sense.
Harvard said no. Whittman College said yes. And Eli Pettifog's freshman year is about to get very strange.
Read the synopsisWhen 14-year-old genius and outsider Eli Pettifog is rejected from Harvard, he ends up at Whittman College, a school that was never part of his plan. There he meets Leo Searly, a 41-year-old freshman looking for a fresh start after his gambling career falls apart. What begins as an unlikely encounter turns into an unexpected friendship.
14
Eli Pettifog
Young genius
Leo Searly
Freshman, again
02 / BEHIND THE SCENES
Life at Whittman.
A look inside the world of HairBrained.
03 / THE PEOPLE
Meet the class.
LEO SEARLY
Brendan Fraser
SHAUNA
Julia Garner
SHEILA PETTIFOG
Parker Posey
THE OFFICIAL TRAILER
Class is in session.
Two minutes to meet the most unexpected freshmen on campus.
04 / FROM THE ARCHIVE
News & press.
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