Man, I Love College

In the spirit of back-to-school, I wanted to find a film that was about school in some form or fashion. So as I was skimming through the Netflix library, there was a section on the my home screen "Silent 1920s Romantic Movies" all there just for me. And the perfect movie was a Buster Keaton classic, College.
It's graduation time for Buster's character, Ronald, and he is the nerd of his high school class. He comes up to stage to give a speech called "Curse of the Athletes" and the love of his life, Mary (Anne Cornwall), is quite disappointed. "If you change your mind about athletics, then I'll change my mind about you," she says--well that's what the title card says at least. So he follows her off to the same college she does and tries to impress her by playing all kinds of sports. He tries baseball and many of the events of track and field but fails miserably at all of them. But Mary loves his spirit. :)
Throughout the whole movie, we see some comedy gold. My favorite part is when his clothes get all wet from walking in the rain to graduation and then he sits by the radiator that's emitting a lot of steam and his clothes shrink! He has to do is speech wearing clothes 2 sizes too small! XD But after all his fails and falls from pole vaulting, hurdle jumping, running the bases, or trying to catch a ball you gotta feel bad for him. He's trying so hard to impress this girl and he won't stops until he succeeds. But it all works out in the end. :)
4 stars out of 5, Buster. Well done!