<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $3 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $141.6 million </Td> </Tr> <P> National Lampoon's Animal House is a 1978 American comedy film directed by John Landis and written by Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney and Chris Miller . It stars John Belushi, Tim Matheson, John Vernon, Verna Bloom, Thomas Hulce, Stephen Furst, and Donald Sutherland . The film is about a misfit group of fraternity members who challenge the authority of the dean of Faber College . </P> <P> The film was produced by Matty Simmons of National Lampoon and Ivan Reitman for Universal Pictures . It was inspired by stories written by Miller and published in National Lampoon . The stories were based on Ramis's experience in the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity at Washington University in St. Louis, as well as Miller's Alpha Delta Phi experiences at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, and producer Reitman's Delta Upsilon experiences at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario . </P>

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