Shithouse (bowdlerized in marketing material as S#!%house and released in some territories as Freshman Year) is a 2020 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film written, directed, and produced by Cooper Raiff, in his directorial debut.
In turn, Maggie opens up about her estrangement from her own father, the unexpected grief over a recent loss of her pet turtle and her secret dreams of acting.
After spontaneously joining an impromptu night baseball game with a group of other students, they return to the dorms to drink and have sex.
Maggie treats Alex in a friendly way again, which he misinterprets as an invitation to reconnect, but when he later finds her hooking up with another student, they devolve into fighting.
Later, he calls his mother and tearfully reveals that he has been lying to her and says that while he does love her and his sister back home, he needs to try harder to put an effort into enjoying his college years instead of leaning on them.
Shithouse began as a fifty-minute YouTube video, shot over five days during spring break at Occidental College in March 2018, performed by Cooper Raiff and his then-girlfriend, Madeline Hill, with Will Youmans as camera operator.
[9] Raiff dropped out of Occidental in early 2019 to devote more effort into making the film, which was shot over two weeks in Los Angeles in August 2019.
For cost reasons, the production could not secure official clearance to shoot on Occidental's campus, so principal photography took place without permits, with Raiff claiming he was making "a student short with no money" when asked.