EuroTrip

EuroTrip (2004)

Timing: 1:32 (92 min)

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Release date

2004-02-20

Country

United States, Canada, Czech Republic

Production

DreamWorks Pictures, The Montecito Picture Company, Blue Sea Productions, Mandel

Genre

Comedy

Budget

$25 000 000

Revenue

$20 796 847

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Director

Jeff Schaffer

Actors

Scott Mechlowicz, Jacob Pitts, Michelle Trachtenberg, Travis Wester, Vinnie Jones, Lucy Lawless, Jessica Boehrs, Patrick Malahide, Patrick Rapold, Diedrich Bader
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Scenario

Jeff Schaffer, Alec Berg

Producer

Jackie Marcus Schaffer, Daniel Goldberg, Alec Berg, David Mandel, Ivan Reitman, Tom Pollock, Joe Medjuck

Operator

David Eggby

Composer

James L. Venable

Artist

Milena Koubková

Audition

Meg Liberman, Cami Patton, Nelia Morago

Editing

Roger Bondelli, Gary R. Wordham
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• Filming of the picture began on May 5, 2003, in Prague, lasted 10 weeks, and ended in mid-July.
• The working title of the film was “Ugly Americans,” but due to events in Iraq, the title was deemed too provocative. Several other titles were then considered, such as “A Fistful of Euros,” “Europe on $07 a Day,” “Going Abroad,” “Road Trip: Let’s Go Europe!,” “Scott Does Europe,” and “What a Frau Wants.” But they settled on the short title “Eurotrip.”
• The beer kegs at the graduation party were actually filled with beer. According to the film's directors, Jeff Schaffer, Alec Berg, and David Mandel, during the filming of the scene with Cooper, Jacob Pitts was genuinely drunk after the bathtub incident.
• 95% of the film was shot in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. Using image compositing, views of entire streets, as well as Big Ben (the clock tower of the Palace of Westminster) and other European landmarks, were included in the film.
• During the filming of the “nudity” scene on the beach, Jacob Pitts was in no hurry to put his shorts back on because he really enjoyed how uncomfortable everyone else felt at the time.
• During the filming of the first take with Michelle Trachtenberg in a bikini, she shook her head so vigorously that she became dizzy and the actress fell.
• When Scotty reads the letter from Mike, he looks up the word "zussamen" in the dictionary. But the word isn't in the text, and when the camera zooms in on the letter, the word appears.
• The working title of the film was “Ugly Americans,” but due to events in Iraq, the title was considered too provocative. Several other titles were then considered, such as “A Fistful of Euros,” “Europe on $07 a Day,” “Going Abroad,” “Road Trip: Let’s Go Europe!,” “Scott Does Europe,” and “What a Frau Wants.” But they settled on the short title “Eurotrip.”
• During the filming of the nudity scene on the beach, Jacob Pitts wasn’t in a hurry to put his shorts back on because he really enjoyed how uncomfortable everyone else felt.
• When Scotty reads the letter from Mieke, he looks up the word “zussamen” in the dictionary. But the word is not in the text, and when the camera shows a close-up of the letter, the word appears.