[10] In 2011, Wain tried to convince Universal Studios to prepare either a 10th anniversary home video re-release with extra features, or a Blu-ray release, but Universal rejected the ideas. The film takes place during the last full day at a fictional summer camp in 1981, and spoofs the sex comedies aimed at teen audiences of that era. Lindsay Wet Hot American Summer About Wet Hot American Summer Wet Hot American Summer Cast and Crew. Elizabeth Banks appeared in Wet Hot American Summer as Lindsay. Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp.
You're not so bad yourself, Mr. Man. Newsflash: "Girl-Next-Door" is not a complete personality.
"[25] The pilot was not picked up for a series. Janeane Garofalo as 'Beth' and David Hyde Pierce as 'Henry' Only Gene, the shell-shocked Vietnam war veteran and camp chef, can help Coop win Katie—with some help from a talking can of mixed vegetables. Writing in my gournal. According to Wain, they wanted to make a film structured like the films Nashville, Dazed and Confused and Do the Right Thing—"films that take place in one contained time period that have lots of different characters. :
Wet Hot American Summer (2001) Elizabeth Banks: Lindsay.
Her secret job also contextualizes a problematic character by adding drive, smarts (a Masters degree from the Columbia School Of Journalism, as she'll never let her colleagues forget), and purpose. Netflix revived the franchise with the release of an eight-episode prequel series starring most of the film's original cast, on July 31, 2015; and an eight-episode sequel series, set ten years after the original film, on August 4, 2017.
Lindsay
Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, "Sleepaway Camp, episode #48 of How Did This Get Made?
Wet Hot American Summer is a 2001 American satirical comedy film directed by David Wain from a screenplay written by Wain and Michael Showalter.
"[14] Numerous other critics have praised the film as a witty pop satire and it has gone on to achieve a cult following.
| What 'cha doing?
[2] Months later, USA Films offered the filmmakers $100,000 for the film, with virtually no participation for the filmmakers, an offer the film's investors accepted.
Images: Saeed Adyani/Netflix; Giphy (3); NBC.
Like camp counselors. Grace has no discernable motivations outside of those provided by the people around her. As the film is set in the early 1980s, the film's soundtrack features songs from many popular bands of the era, most notably Jefferson Starship, Rick Springfield, Loverboy, and KISS.
2020 Bustle Digital Group. But it's possible that no counselor's backstory is more surprising than that of Elizabeth Banks' Lindsay, who all of Camp Firewood eventually knows as Andy's girlfriend. : Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a rating of 38%, based on 76 reviews, with an average rating of 4.85/10. Newsweek's David Ansen also lauded it, calling it a "gloriously silly romp" that "made me laugh harder than any other movie this summer.
[citation needed], Actress Kristen Bell stated on NPR on September 2, 2012, that Wet Hot American Summer was her favorite film, having watched it "hundreds of times." Release Dates
Set on the last day of camp, in the hot summer of 1981, a group of counselors try to complete their unfinished business before the day ends. Andy ", "Bullseye with Jesse Thorn: Jim Rash, Bob Saget, Jessica St. Clair and Lennon Parham", "From Universal Pictures Home Entertainment: Wet Hot American Summer – UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif., April 13, 2015 /PRNewswire/", "Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp: Season 1", "Netflix is going back to camp with Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later", "Cult movie classics get big-screen showings", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wet_Hot_American_Summer&oldid=985497232, Articles with unsourced statements from June 2011, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, "Wet Hot American Summer" by Craig Wedren, "Higher and Higher" by Craig Wedren and Theodore Shapiro, "Summer in America" by Mr. Blue & Chubb Rock, This page was last edited on 26 October 2020, at 08:32.