Wet Hot American Summer

Name: Wet Hot American Summer
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2001-07-27
Duration: 1 h 37 min
Rating: 6.5
Cast: Janeane Garofalo, David Hyde Pierce, Michael Showalter, Marguerite Moreau, Paul Rudd

High Times. Hard Bodies. Soft Rock.

Wet Hot American Summer (2001)

Timing: 1:37 (97 min)

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Release date

2001-07-27

Country

United States

Production

Universal Pictures, Eureka Pictures

Genre

Comedy

Budget

$5 000 000

Revenue

$295 206

Website

http://www.wethotamericansummer.com/

Director

David Wain

Actors

Janeane Garofalo, David Hyde Pierce, Michael Showalter, Marguerite Moreau, Paul Rudd, Zak Orth, Christopher Meloni, A.D. Miles, Molly Shannon, Gideon Jacobs
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

David Wain, Michael Showalter, Howard Bernstein

Operator

Ben Weinstein

Composer

Theodore Shapiro

Artist

Audition

Susie Farris

Editing

Meg Reticker
All team (15)

Short description

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.

What's left behind the scenes

The film's title includes the words 'hot summer,' but the closing credits express gratitude to the crew for their fortitude during a 'cold spring' in Pennsylvania. Steam can be seen forming from the characters’ breath in some scenes of the film.
The owners of the camp where the film was shot were told it would be a family comedy. What they saw on screen shocked them.
The film was shot over 28 days. It rained for 23 of those days.
In the original script, there was a scene where Paul Rada's character kills a man to prevent the truth about the numerous deaths caused by his negligence from surfacing. The director and one of the scriptwriters, David Wain, cut the scene because he let his father read the script, and his father declared he would disown him if he dared to include anything like that in the film.
At one point in the script, Gideon Jacobs' character was supposed to kiss Molly Shannon's character. Jacobs was only 12 years old at the time of filming, and he felt extremely awkward, which was obvious to both the crew and Gideon's parents, who were present on set. Therefore, instead of a kiss, he was asked to simply adjust a strand of her hair. According to Jacobs himself, many viewers later told him that this scene was very touching and became their favorite moment in the entire film.
The film's title includes the words "hot summer," but the end credits express gratitude to the crew for their fortitude displayed during a "cold spring" in Pennsylvania. In some scenes, you can see the heroes' breath forming vapor.

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