Adventureland
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ADVENTURELAND - DVD Movie
A sweet and slap-happy mix of indie coming-of-age drama and Judd Apatow’s scatological but heartfelt manchild comedies, Greg Mottola’s Adventureland is a winning look at the pleasures and frustrations of dead-end jobs and teenage kicks as viewed through a filter of mid-‘80s pop culture. The underutilized and always watchable Jesse Eisenberg (The Squid and the Whale) is a sheltered, introspective New York college grad who discovers that his parents’ financial woes will not only quash his dream of a summer in Europe (to enjoy its more “sexually permissive” nations) but require a move to Pittsburgh, where he lands a job at a dilapidated amusement park. -- Paul Gaita
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Stills from Adventureland (Click for larger image) Though ill-matched at first, Eisenberg and Stewart make a likable on-screen couple, and they’re well-supported by a terrific cast that includes such die-hard scene-stealers as Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig as the park’s offbeat owners, Martin Starr as a Russian lit aficionado, and Ryan Reynolds as a former town tamer, now reduced to working as the park’s handyman. Mottola, who directed Superbad and episodes of the well-loved Freaks and Geeks, and who once worked in a similar park as a teen, doesn’t shy from the crude laughs that make Apatow’s features so popular, but he tempers it with a wistful tone and layered characters that hew closer to his earliest work, The Daytrippers. There, he’s thrown in with a motley crew of eccentrics, small-town types and a few genuine free spirits, most notably co-worker Em (Kristen Stewart), whose complicated past proves irresistible to his repressed psyche. A soundtrack performed by underground faves Yo La Tengo and filled with a smart mix of hip cuts (Hüsker Dü, the New York Dolls, the Replacements) and period faves (Falco’s “Rock Me Amadeus”) underscores the film’s blend of tentative emotions and broad laughs.
Product Info
- Actor
- Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Ryan Reynolds, Kelsey Ford, Michael Zegen
- Aspect Ratio
- 1.85:1
- Audience Rating
- Binding
- DVD
- Brand
- Buena Vista Home Video
- Creator
- Greg Mottola, Anne Carey, Bruce Toll, Declan Baldwin, Scott Ferguson, Sidney Kimmel, Ted Hope
- Director
- Greg Mottola
- EAN
- 0786936795226
- EAN List
- EANListElement: 0786936795226
- Feature
- From thedirector of SUPERBAD comes ADVENTURELAND, a smart, witty comedy we canall relate to. When James Brennan (Jesse Eisenberg) has to cancel hisdream summer vacation and make some money for grad school, the only jobhe can get is at Adventureland, a tacky amusement park where the gamesare rigged and the rides make you hurl. But it's where he meets Em(Kristen Stewart, TWILIGHT), and his rollercoa
- Format
- AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
- Label
- Miramax
- Manufacturer
- Miramax
- MPN
- 786936795226
- Number Of Discs
- 1
- Original Release Date
- 2009-01-01
- Package Quantity
- 1
- Part Number
- 786936795226
- Product Group
- DVD
- Product Type Name
- ABIS_DVD
- Publisher
- Miramax
- Region Code
- 1
- Release Date
- 2009-08-25
- Running Time
- 107
- SKU
- DIS_D102596D
- Studio
- Miramax
- Theatrical Release Date
- 2009
- Title
- Adventureland
- UPC
- 786936795226
- UPC List
- UPCListElement: 786936795226
- ASIN
- B002BFBAWO
- Sales Rank
- 13960
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