American Pie - Like a hot apple pie

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Movie
German title American Pie - Like a hot apple pie
Original title American Pie
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1999
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
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Director Paul Weitz
script Adam heart
production Chris Moore
Warren Zide
Craig Perry
Chris Weitz
music David Nessim Lawrence
camera Richard Crudo
cut Priscilla Nedd-Friendly
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American Pie 2

American Pie - As a hot apple pie is (English for "American pie") an American teenager - Comedy by Paul Weitz in 1999 and marked the start of the American Pie film series .

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The four friends Jim, Oz, Kevin and Finch live in a small US town near the Great Lakes , go to high school there and are still inexperienced in sexual experiences with women. After a party hosted by class playboy Steve Stifler, moderately popular classmate Sherman brags about getting a girl to bed. As a result, the quartet makes a pact: by the school prom in a few weeks everyone wants to lose their innocence and sleep with a woman.

The four of them set to work with different methods, but repeatedly run into problems.

The actual main character Jim is caught penetrating a warm apple pie (from which the film title is derived) in the kitchen of his parents' house by his father Noah. He also has to endure his honest attempts to educate him about sexuality . The pretty Czech exchange student Nadia asks him to help her learn history. The rendezvous with Nadia at home it transmits on a proposal Stifler via internet , but sends the link inadvertently to the small circle of friends, but to all school contacts the witness how he very awkward lining up at the Nadia initiated erotic play and twice a experienced premature ejaculation .

Lacrosse athlete Oz believes joining the school choir will get in touch with girls. Here he meets Heather, with whom he immediately falls in love, which is why he also takes on the male solo part of the song that the choir wants to sing at the singing competition. However, Heather misunderstands his approach after the initial flirtation and gives him the pass. Oz decides not to play after a speech by the coach during the last lacrosse game of the season and still sings with Heather and the choir.

Kevin is the only one of the four who already has a girlfriend. But with Vicky he doesn't get beyond foreplay. Only after talking to his older brother and with the help of a special book can he overcome your sexual inhibitions.

Finch meanwhile surrounds himself with the reputation of a daredevil at school, which earns him quite a few inquiries from girls. He bought his reputation for money from Vicky's friend Jessica. When Stifler doesn't get his prom date because of Finch, he decides to take revenge. He uses laxatives to force the Finch, known as "Heimscheißer" ( "Shitbreak" in the American original ), to relieve himself in the girls' toilet, whereby Finch loses his reputation and the advances of the girls again.

Right before prom, Heather forgave Oz after seeing him practicing solo for the school choir singing competition. She also visits him in the evening at his father's diner where he works. Finch is solo, Kevin is at the ball with Vicky, Oz with Heather and Jim with the naive and funny flautist Michelle, who - as Jim puts it - "... is a flute-bobbing turkey". But when it turns out there that Sherman was whistling about his one-night stand at the party, the friends are relieved and now concentrate on the essentials: true love.

At a subsequent party at Stifler's, each of the four finally gets back to his girl and also to what everyone has sworn to each other. Kevin and Vicky as well as Oz and Heather spend the night together. Jim's date Michelle turns out to be sexually totally uninhibited and gives him an unforgettable bed experience. When Jim woke up the next morning and instead of Michelle was holding an inflated rubber animal in his arms, he stated: “I was used. Cool. ”And even Finch finds his lid - in the form of Stifler's mother, which also gave him his revenge.

The film ends with Jim pleasing Nadia with a strip over the Internet. His father happened to see this through a crack in the door, danced down the hall and called Jim's mother.

Soundtrack

  1. Third Eye Blind - New Girl
  2. Tonic - You Wanted More
  3. Blink-182 - Mutt
  4. Sugar Ray - Glory
  5. Super Transatlantic - Super down
  6. Dishwalla - Find your way home
  7. Dan Wilson of Semisonic & Bic Runga - Good Morning Baby
  8. Shades Apart - Stranger by the day
  9. Bachelor Number one - Summertime
  10. Goldfinger - Vintage Queen
  11. Bic Runga - Sway
  12. The Loose Nuts - Wishen
  13. The Atomic Fireballs - Man with the hex

The following titles are included in the film, but not on the soundtrack :

Reviews

"Undemanding, infantile teenage comedy, enriched with coarse sexual humor that is presented with innocent ease."

- Lexicon of international film

"The incredibly frivolous defloration farce AMERICAN PIE sets a new high in the high school sex comedy"

- Focus

"Funny and mercilessly tasteless"

- TV Movie

"Vulgärklaumauk as stupid compensation for uptight souls."

- Filmspiegel.de

Awards

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Nominations

Sequels

In 2001 and 2003 the sequels American Pie 2 and American Pie were released . American Pie was presented in November 2005 : The next generation appeared, which, however, largely dispensed with the well-known actors. This film was not released in theaters but was released directly on DVD . On December 14, 2006, the fifth part of American Pie Presents: Naked Facts in Germany was released on DVD in stores. The sixth part American Pie Presents: The College Clique was also released directly on DVD. The seventh part of the series was released on DVD on December 17, 2009: American Pie Presents: The Book of Love . On April 26, 2012 the eighth or unofficially fourth part American Pie: Das Klassentreffen (original American Reunion ) was released in German cinemas, in which the majority of the original actors are again involved.

Others

  • The film grossed 100 million US dollars in just 10 weeks , making it one of the most successful films of 1999 in the USA. It was intended as a homage to the college comedies, which were largely shot in the 1980s and interspersed with feces and sex jokes. In the end, American Pie caused a brief revival of this genre, which resulted in its own sequels, Road Trip and Party Animals .
  • The film title does not refer to the well-known song American Pie by Don McLean , but to the scene in which Jim penetrates an apple pie .
  • In 2000, Total Film magazine readers voted American Pie the sixth best comedy film of all time.
  • Much of the film is based on the childhood experiences of the story writer Adam Herz at the American East Grand Rapids High (high school), which is in East Grand Rapids (Michigan). In the film the city is called "East Great Falls", but the school has the same colors as the real model.
  • The band Blink-182 made a cameo in the scene when Jim can be seen stripping over the Internet (the band happens to see Jim on the computer). Director Chris Weitz can be heard briefly elsewhere in the English original as a male voice in a porn film. Casey Affleck acts as Kevin's film brother Tom .
  • In the credits of the film Tom DeLonge, Mark Hoppus and Scott Raynor (blink-182) are listed as band members who have watched Jim over the Internet, but Raynor had actually left Blink-182 at this point and the new drummer Travis Barker also works in Film with.
  • Due to the sexual content of some scenes and the associated high age rating of American Pie in the USA, there are different versions of some scenes and thus two different film versions.
    • After petting Vicky, Kevin ejaculates in a beer glass. In one version this can be seen vaguely, in the other version Kevin can only be heard while Vicky can be seen in a close-up.
    • The penetration of the apple pie. In one version, Jim is standing and holding the cake bowl in front of his crotch, in the variation Jim is lying on the table with the cake under him. Both versions end with Jim's father coming into the kitchen.
    • The love Bible has different contents in the two versions, while Kevin is leafing through it. The viewer also sees the cunnilingus scene with Vicky in two different versions.
  • In the January 2018 issue of Titanic magazine , Hans Mentz points out in the criticism of humor that the idea of ​​male penetration of an apple pie was mentioned as early as 1979 in Wilhelm Genazino's novel Wrong Years .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ American Pie - Like a hot apple pie. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 11, 2016 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ Film review on Filmspiegel.de
  3. ^ Box office Mojo box office results
  4. ↑ http://www.titanic-magazin.de/humorkritik/2018/januar/hk/neue_seltsame_doubletten-6/
American Pie
Original film series

American Pie - Like a Hot Apple Pie (1999) • American Pie 2 (2001) • American Pie - Now Getting Married (2003) • American Pie: The Class Reunion (2012)

Offshoot film series

The Next Generation (2005) • The Naked Mile (2006) • The College Clique (2007) • The Book of Love (2009)