American Pie ((film)
American Pie is a 1999 teen comedy film directed by Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz and written by Adam Herz. This was the first film directed by the Weitz brothers. The movie is centered on four boys who make a pact to lose their virginity by their high school graduation, and their subsequent adventures. As the theatrical poster implies, the title of the movie refers to a scene in the film in which the lead character is caught having sex with a pie after earlier being told that "third base" feels "like warm apple pie". It was a box-office hit and spawned two direct sequels: American Pie 2 in 2001, American Wedding in 2003. Singer Don McLean was credited for allowing the name of his hit song to be used as the title.
Much of the film is based on the writer's days at East Grand Rapids High School in East Grand Rapids, Michigan an upper middle class suburb of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Soundtrack
Third
Eye Blind - "New Girl"
Tonic - "You Wanted More"
blink-182
- "Mutt"
Sugar Ray - "Glory"
Super TransAtlantic -
"Superdown"
Dishwalla - "Find Your Way Back Home"
Bic
Runga - "Good Morning Baby"
Shades Apart - "Stranger by the
Day"
Bachelor Number One - "Summertime"
Goldfinger - "Vintage
Queen"
Bic Runga - "Sway"
Loose Nuts - "Wishen"
The Atomic Fireballs - "Man with the Hex"
This film ranked number 49 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies", and ranked number 22 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the 50 Best High School Movies. In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted American Pie the 6th greatest comedy film of all time.
Since the conclusion of the American Pie trilogy, featuring the courtship
and marriage of Jim Levenstein and Michelle Flaherty, the American Pie name has
gone on to be used as an entity similar to National Lampoon. The American Pie
entity has spawned three spin-off films: American Pie Presents: Band Camp, which
was a direct to video release in 2005, and American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile
was released on DVD in December 2006. The latest film, American Pie Presents:
Beta House was released in 2007.
Cast
Jim Levenstein
(Jason Biggs) - Jim is the main character, and easily has the worst luck out of
all the characters, being always in the wrong place at the wrong time. He is obsessed
with sexual intercourse, and is frequently caught in some kind of embarrassing
sexual act, most often by his father. He makes a pact with Kevin, Oz, and Finch
to lose his virginity before he graduates. After a humiliating experience with
a beautiful foreign exchange student, Nadia, he asks a band geek, Michelle, to
the prom, has sex with her and eventually marries her in American Wedding.
Kevin
Myers (Thomas Ian Nicholas) - Kevin Myers is the leader of the group, and creates
the laid-before-prom-night pact with Jim, Oz, and Finch. He is a loving boyfriend
to Vicky, with whom he has gotten as far as only third base. He wants to have
sex with her in an honest and romantic way but is afraid to say the word love.
He and Vicky eventually break up, not wanting to have to go through with a long
distance relationship. It is Kevin's older brother (played in an uncredited role
by Casey Affleck) who gives him the Sex Bible, and suggests that the group go
to the lake house in American Pie 2. In American Wedding, it is revealed that
he has a girlfriend, though her identity is never revealed.
Chris "Oz"
Ostreicher (Chris Klein) - Oz is a stereotypical jock who is not as good with
women as he thinks. When he makes the pact to lose his virginity, he meets and
falls in love with a choir girl named Heather. His friendly and sensitive side
emerges from the whole experience, and it leads to him having a serious relationship
with Heather, consummated at the post-prom party. He continues his relationship
in American Pie 2 with Heather. He is absent from American Wedding.
Paul Finch
(Eddie Kaye Thomas) - Finch is an intelligent sophisticate who enters the pact
to lose his virginity. He hires Jessica to spread good rumors about him, and soon
has a big reputation, which is quickly lost after a diarrhea incident in the girls
bathroom, caused by Stifler. Finch soon gets revenge on Stifler by having sex
with Stifler's beautiful and oversexed mother. Throughout the series, he waits
to see Stifler's mother again, and has sex with her at the end of all three movies.
He is mortal enemies with Stifler, who calls him "shit break" because
of his habit of not using the school toilet, as he thinks public toilets are not
hygienic enough.
Steve Stifler (Seann William Scott) - An obnoxious, loudmouthed
jerk, Stifler is more obsessed with sex than the other four guys put together.
He refers to himself as the "Stiffmeister". He is popular only because
he throws great parties and his mom is a MILF. He causes a multitude of problems
for the other characters, and seems to hate everybody, especially Finch, whom
he nicknames "shit break" (see above). He is a bad influence on his
younger brother Matt (Eli Marienthal), who, while much younger, has a similar
personality to his older brother. Stifler's vocabulary consists usually of sex
talk, crude and/or sexual insults, and any more general profanities. Stifler matures
somewhat in American Wedding, after accidentally wrecking all the flowers for
the wedding he feels compelled to make amends and fix things by enlisting the
football team he coaches and a florist in an all night session to replace them.
He is frequently the victim of "gross-out" moments, most commonly the
unintentional consumption of some bodily secretion (semen in American Pie, urine
in American Pie 2, and dog feces in American Wedding). Continuing the family tradition,
his brother Matt (played by Tad Hilgenbrink) consumes saliva in American Pie Presents:
Band Camp.
Michelle Flaherty (Alyson Hannigan) A band geek who has many annoying
stories about her experiences at band camp (a running gag within the movie). She
first shocks Jim with the line: "And this one time, at band camp, I stuck
a flute in my pussy", and proves to be very sexually adventurous. She goes
to the prom with Jim, they fall in love and they eventually marry in American
Wedding.
Nadia (Shannon Elizabeth) - A tall sexy girl from what is referred
to as Czechoslovakia (it is not clear whether she is from Czech Republic or Slovakia,
as Czechoslovakia dissolved in 1993, six years before the time of the movie),
with whom Jim nearly has his first sexual experience via the internet, but ends
up humiliating himself instead. She still has a thing for Jim, and Jim spends
the course of American Pie 2 preparing for a visit from her. He eventually chooses
Michelle, his "geek", over her. Nadia is sexually aroused by "geeks",
and Sherman (also known as The Shermanator) proves to be her perfect replacement
for Jim. She doesn't appear in American Wedding.
Vicky Lathum (Tara Reid)
- Kevin's girlfriend, who will not let Kevin have sex with her unless everything
is perfect. She and Kevin eventually have sex, and they soon break up, not wanting
a long distance relationship. Not long after, she gets a new boyfriend. Vicky
doesn't appear in the American Wedding.
Heather (Mena Suvari) - A choir girl,
Heather is really sweet and innocent. She is charmed by Oz, and the two fall in
love, and eventually have sex (Oz chivalrously demurs from telling his friends
whether they did). In the first summer of college (American Pie 2), she and Oz
successfully maintain a long distance relationship. She doesn't appear in American
Wedding.
Jessica (Natasha Lyonne) - The sexually experienced expert. She convinces
Vicky to have sex with Kevin, advises Kevin on how to get Vicky in bed with him,
and spreads good rumors about Finch, to give him a reputation. She doesn't appear
in American Wedding.
Noah Levenstein (Jim's Dad) (Eugene Levy) - Jim's geeky
father, who does not know how to have a comfortable "birds and the bees"
type conversation with his son. Whenever something humiliating happens to Jim,
he's always there to try and cheer him up. He also walks in on Jim masturbating
on more than one occasion. In spite of his geekiness, he is still a supportive,
and loving father who has a good relationship with his son. He becomes the leader
of the band camp in American Pie: Band Camp. His First name is revealed to be
Noah in the Naked Mile.
Janine Stifler (Jennifer Coolidge) - Stifler's gorgeous
mother who is coveted by every boy in the school, often referred to as a MILF.
She has sex with Finch at the end of all three movies. She is referred to, and
likes being called, "Stifler's mom," during sex.
Chuck Sherman (Chris
Owen) - (also known as The Shermanator) is a nerdy kid whose lies about losing
his virginity prompt Jim, Oz, Kevin, and Finch to make their pact. It turns out
that he never even had sex, and the girl he lied about humiliates him in front
of everyone at the prom. He eventually has sex with Nadia in American Pie 2, and
becomes the school guidance counselor in American Pie: Band Camp.
Plot
American Pie is the story of four Michigan high school seniors who make a pact to lose their virginity before graduation after a geeky classmate, Chuck Sherman (Chris Owen) claims to have done so at a party at Steve Stifler's (Seann William Scott) house.
Kevin Myers (Thomas Ian Nicholas), the initiator of the pact, tries to repair his relationship with his girlfriend Vicki (Tara Reid) after she has a serious fight with him at the party. Chris "Oz" Ostreicher (Chris Klein), who is on the school lacrosse team with Stifler, joins the jazz choir to pick up girls, as the girls there know little of his insensitive jock reputation. Paul Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas), the mochaccino-drinking sophisticate, pays Vicki's friend Jessica (Natasha Lyonne) $200 to spread rumors of his sexual prowess, hoping that will increase his chances of success.
Jim Levenstein (Jason Biggs) pursues Nadia (Shannon Elizabeth), an exchange student from Czech Republic. She comes to his house to study with him, and has to change clothes there after ballet practice, so Stifler convinces Jim to set up a webcam so they can all watch her change. Jim runs over to Kevin's house to watch. Once he gets there, Nadia is seen on the computer discovering his pornography collection hiding in his dresser, and instead of finding it offensive, she begins looking through it while masturbating (this scene ranked #10 in the 100 Greatest Sexy Moments). Kevin urges Jim to run back home, saying this is his best opportunity. Jim arrives, and Nadia orders him to strip; meanwhile, it turns out that he had incorrectly addressed the e-mail to Kevin and Stifler, so instead of the link being sent to only his two friends, every mailbox in the school directory received the link; virtually the entire studentry is watching. As Jim slowly caresses her leg up to her genitals, he then climaxes prematurely. As Nadia is about to leave, he convinces her to stay, but upon seeing her nude and touching her pubic area, he climaxes prematurely again, humiliating himself before the entire school. In desperation, Jim asks band geek Michelle Flaherty (Alyson Hannigan) to the senior prom, as she is apparently the only girl in the entire school who does not know what happened.
Finch, meanwhile, has his own troubles. Stifler, angry that a girl turned him down for the prom because she was holding out for Finch, puts a laxative into Finch's mochaccino. Unable to do his usual routine of heading home to use the toilet (Finch is paranoid about the lack of cleanliness in the school restrooms), Stifler directs him into the girls' restroom, for him to emerge before all of the other students, humiliated and left dateless.
At the prom, everything seems hopeless for the four boys until Vicky asks the girl that Sherman claimed to have bedded about her "first time". She gets even by proclaiming to the entire prom that she and Sherman did not have sex at Stifler's party, humiliating him. The revelation takes the pressure off of Jim, Kevin, Oz and Finch, and they head to the post prom party with new hope.
At the party at Stifler's house after the prom, all four boys fulfill the pledge. Kevin and Vicki have sex in an upstairs bedroom, but the act is very awkward. Vicki breaks up with him afterward on the grounds that they will be too far apart in college, with him at Michigan and her at Ithaca. Oz confesses the pact to Heather (Mena Suvari), a girl from the glee club, and renounces it, saying that just being together with her made him a winner. They fall in love, begin a relationship, and end up making love on the porch. Having reformed, Oz never admits that they did. Finch strays downstairs to the recreation room where he meets Stifler's mom (Jennifer Coolidge). She is aroused by his maturity, and they have sex on a pool table. Stifler finds them together in the morning and faints. Jim and Michelle have sex after he finds out that she saw the "Nadia incident" after all. She accepted the date because of it, knowing he was a sure thing, but she makes him wear two condoms to combat his earlier "problem" with Nadia. Jim is, to put it mildly, rather surprised by Michelle's behavior in bed. In the morning he wakes up to find her gone, an inflatable shark in her place. Essentially, she used him (which Jim thinks is "cool").
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