Wet Hot American Summer (2001)
The setting is Camp Firewood, the year 1981. It's the last day before everyone goes back to the real world, but there's still a summer's worth of unfinished business to resolve. At the center of the action is camp director Beth, who struggles to keep order while she falls in love with the local astrophysics professor. He is busy trying to save the camp from a deadly piece of NASA's Skylab which is hurtling toward earth. All that, plus: a dangerous waterfall rescue, love triangles, misfits, cool kids, and talking vegetable cans. The questions will all be resolved, of course, at the big talent show at the end of the day.
Wet Hot American Summer (2001)
Information
Released Year: 2001
Runtime: 97 minutes
Directors: David Wain
Casts: Molly Shannon, Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Joe Lo Truglio, Peter Salett, Christopher Meloni, Janeane Garofalo, Bradley Cooper, Kevin Sussman, Amy Poehler, Kyle Gallner, Judah Friedlander, Michael Ian Black, Donna Mitchell, Ken Marino, Zak Orth, A.D. Miles, Nina Hellman, Michael Showalter, Gabriel Millman, David Hyde Pierce, Marguerite Moreau, Gideon Jacobs, Liam Norton, Marisa Ryan, Kevin Thomas Conroy, Christopher Cusumano, Cassidy Ladden, Madeline Blue, Jacob Shoesmith Fox, Whitney Vance, Benjamin Coppola, H. Jon Benjamin, Jake Fogelnest, Ian Helfer, Jordan MacLean, Avi Setton, Kathleen Pandolfo, Zachary Montgomery-Wicks, Danny Hopkins, Christopher Connors, Matt Carmeci, Stephen O'Brien, Timothy Gasiewski, Angel Berlane, Christi Berlane, Bob Walz, Joseph Kariuki, Joe Bryan, Christine Loebsack, Sandra Kennedy, Keith Oney, Dan Klein
Storyline
The setting is Camp Firewood, the year 1981. It's the last day before everyone goes back to the real world, but there's still a summer's worth of unfinished business to resolve. At the center of the action is camp director Beth, who struggles to keep order while she falls in love with the local astrophysics professor. He is busy trying to save the camp from a deadly piece of NASA's Skylab which is hurtling toward earth. All that, plus: a dangerous waterfall rescue, love triangles, misfits, cool kids, and talking vegetable cans. The questions will all be resolved, of course, at the big talent show at the end of the day.
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Reviews
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Newsweek -
This shamefully underpromoted, gloriously silly romp made me laugh harder than any other movie this summer. Make that this year.
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L.A. Weekly -
Like, you know, genius. But, like, you know, why?
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The New York Times -
In essence, it's a ragged collection of bits and sketches cobbled into about a dozen plots, most of which call upon the cast to do a lot of tongue and neck-spraining French kissing.
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New York Daily News -
The frantic proceedings are more likely to have you wishing this summer would just come to an end.
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San Francisco Chronicle -
Harmless enough, and its team of actors so frisky and enthusiastic that it manages to deliver a modicum of laughs despite itself.
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The setting is Camp Firewood, the year 1981. It's the last day before everyone goes back to the real world, but there's still a summer's worth of unfinished business to resolve. At the center of the action is camp director Beth, who struggles to keep order while she falls in love with the local astrophysics professor. He is busy trying to save the camp from a deadly piece of NASA's Skylab which is hurtling toward earth. All that, plus: a dangerous waterfall rescue, love triangles, misfits, cool kids, and talking vegetable cans. The questions will all be resolved, of course, at the big talent show at the end of the day.
The setting is Camp Firewood, the year 1981. It's the last day before everyone goes back to the real world, but there's still a summer's worth of unfinished business to resolve. At the center of the action is camp director Beth, who struggles to keep order while she falls in love with the local astrophysics professor. He is busy trying to save the camp from a deadly piece of NASA's Skylab which is hurtling toward earth. All that, plus: a dangerous waterfall rescue, love triangles, misfits, cool kids, and talking vegetable cans. The questions will all be resolved, of course, at the big talent show at the end of the day.
The setting is Camp Firewood, the year 1981. It's the last day before everyone goes back to the real world, but there's still a summer's worth of unfinished business to resolve. At the center of the action is camp director Beth, who struggles to keep order while she falls in love with the local astrophysics professor. He is busy trying to save the camp from a deadly piece of NASA's Skylab which is hurtling toward earth. All that, plus: a dangerous waterfall rescue, love triangles, misfits, cool kids, and talking vegetable cans. The questions will all be resolved, of course, at the big talent show at the end of the day.
The setting is Camp Firewood, the year 1981. It's the last day before everyone goes back to the real world, but there's still a summer's worth of unfinished business to resolve. At the center of the action is camp director Beth, who struggles to keep order while she falls in love with the local astrophysics professor. He is busy trying to save the camp from a deadly piece of NASA's Skylab which is hurtling toward earth. All that, plus: a dangerous waterfall rescue, love triangles, misfits, cool kids, and talking vegetable cans. The questions will all be resolved, of course, at the big talent show at the end of the day.