Wet Hot American Summer
High times. Hard bodies. Soft rock.
Country
Production
Genre
Budget
$5 000 000
Revenue
$295 206
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
David Wain, Michael Showalter, Howard Bernstein
Operator
Ben Weinstein
Composer
Artist
Mark White
Audition
Susie Farris
Editing
Meg Reticker
All team (16)
All team (16)
Short description
It's the last day of Camp Firewood's season, but there's still time for the big talent show, a little romance… and for everyone to be wiped out by the piece of NASA's Skylab that's hurtling toward Earth.
What's left behind the scenes
- 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.
- The original version of the script included a scene in which Paul Rudd's character kills a man to prevent the truth about the numerous deaths caused by his negligence from coming out. The director and co-writer David Wayne cut it from the script because he let his father read it, and after reading, his father declared that he would disown his son if he dared to put anything of that nature in the movie.
- At one point, the script required Gideon Jacobs's character to kiss Molly Shannon's character. Jacobs was only 12 years old at the time of filming and felt extremely awkward, which was obvious to both the crew and Gideon's parents present on set; therefore, instead of a kiss, he was asked to simply tuck a strand of hair behind her ear. According to Jacobs himself, many viewers later told him that this episode was very touching and became their favorite moment in the entire film.
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