Wet Hot American Summer

Wet Hot American Summer takes place on the final day of the 1981 season at Camp Firewood, a summer camp where counselors and campers scramble to settle unfinished business before everyone goes home. Beth, who runs the camp, tries to keep things under control while falling for Henry, an astrophysicist who arrives with bad news: debris from the failing Skylab space station is falling toward Earth and may land on the camp. Around them, Coop hopes to finally tell fellow counselor Katie how he feels, though she is involved with the unfaithful Andy, and the camp prepares for its end-of-season talent show.

The film is David Wain's directorial debut and the first entry in the chronological list of his features, followed by The Ten, Role Models, Wanderlust, They Came Together, A Futil and Stupid Gesture, and Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass. Wain wrote the screenplay with Michael Showalter, and both produced alongside Howard Bernstein. The large ensemble includes Janeane Garofalo as Beth, David Hyde Pierce as Henry, Michael Showalter as Coop, Marguerite Moreau as Katie, Paul Rudd as Andy and Zak Orth as J.J., among 56 credited cast members.

Made for about 5 million dollars, the comedy drew modest ratings: 6.5 out of 10 on IMDb from roughly 64,000 votes, 6.2 out of 10 on TMDB from around 900 votes, and 5.6 out of 10 from 77 critics' reviews, with audiences rating it somewhat more favorably than critics.