Saint College

Saint College (also referred as St. College) is a 2017 computer-animated comedy film produced by Paramount Animation and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures. Directed by Bibo Bergeron with co-direction by Peggy Holmes from the screenplay by Len Blum, David N. Weiss and Linda Woolverton, the film focuses on a lady who finds herself in the same college as her ex-boyfriend so she works to graduate and succeed from her ex-boyfriend. It stars Felicity Jones and Daniel Radcliffe. Mikros Image provided its animation to the film.

The film was released in the United States on April 21, 2017, by Paramount Pictures. The film grossed $99.2 million against its $50 million budget.

Plot
After graduating high school, Lana (Felicity Jones) met Kyle (Daniel Radcliffe), and then she was working with him to look for jobs. With so many mistakes being made by Kyle, Lana breaks up with him to apply for college or university. She applies for her scholarship and then she writes her personal statement and she meets other requirements to get into college or university. The next day, Lana found out that she applied to the college known as "Saint College" for many subjects she can work on. Three months later, Lana started her first day at St. College whereas she starts engineering.

Failing to make her invention in engineering class, her engineering teacher told Lana that she needs more time to make an invention without rushing. While Lana trying her 2nd attempt to make her invention, she realizes that her ex-boyfriend Kyle was in the same college as her. After making her second attempt on invention, she presented her invention to many students that her invention can make a lot of things within 10 seconds. However after Lana's turn, her ex-boyfriend Kyle presented his intervention that improves on cleaning the environment. Kyle gets a higher grade than Lana's on the engineering project. Furious, Lana thinks Kyle's invention is better than hers, but her engineering teacher tells her not to worry and will do better in engineering in the next project.

Three weeks later, Lana studies her notes in her residential room for the first math test. However, she forgot to realize that she is late for math class, and she later fails the first math test. She she begs a principal that she may need support. The principal convinces her to make new friends. She then makes 4 new friends in history class. She finally passes the first test for the class category (history). Kyle then realizes she wants her friends to support her. Three months later, Lana and Kyle face for their exams. She was afraid at first, but with her intelligence increasing, she passes her first exam. Kyle thinks she is cheating on her exam. Kyle then goes back to his residential room for his payback plan.

Kyle was trying to cheat on Lana's second exam, but he was caught by his mentor, who sends him to the principal. The principal tells Kyle "not to do anything stupid ever again". A few more months later, Lana is on track to pass the math and engineering classes again. Thanks to her friends' support, she created her perfect invention on the engineering class. Kyle then tries to make his invention similar to hers, but he feels tired of building. After Lana passed the engineering class, Lana and Kyle then go on the fight, but was stopped by their engineering teacher, who sends them back to principal for their fight in class. This causes the principal to swap classes for Kyle.

In the final months of Saint College, Kyle then tries to apologize to Lana for his wrongdoing, but she tells him to "get his own friends". Without any help from her friends, she continues to struggle on her final test for all classes, but she now realizes she is not afraid of doing tests anymore as she passed all the final tests. She gets graduated in her final day of university. Lana enjoys her new life as a worker of her mother's café.

Cast
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 * Felicity Jones as Lana
 * Daniel Radcliffe as Kyle, Lana's ex-boyfriend

Additional Voices

 * Susan Boyajian
 * Sandy Fox
 * Sean Kenin
 * Hope Levy
 * Jessica McDonald
 * Scott Menville
 * Diane Michelle
 * Alix Wilton Regan
 * David Shaughnessy
 * Wally Wingert

Production
In November 2014, Bibo Bergeron announced that he will direct his next project following the completion of Lester's Academy at Sony Pictures Animation. Paramount Pictures will distribute the film with Paramount Animation and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer co-producing it. Len Blum and David N. Weiss will co-write the screenplay of the film. In September 2015, it was announced that Peggy Holmes has joined as co-director of the film to help fix the story problems with Felicity Jones joining to star as Lana. At the same month, Linda Woolverton was added as another screenwriter. In February 2016, Daniel Radcliffe joined to voice Lana's ex-boyfriend.

Release
The film was previously set to be released on May 19, 2017, but it was pushed back to April 21, 2017, by Paramount Pictures.

Home media
Saint College was released on digital on July 4, 2017, and on DVD and Blu-ray on July 18, 2017, by Paramount Home Media Distribution.

Box office
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Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 82%, based on 116 reviews. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 76 out of 100, based on 22 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale.