Adventureland
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Greg Mottola
Jesse Eisenberg
Kristen Stewart
Martin Starr
Bill Hader
Kristen Wiig
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Welcome to Adventureland, where the worst job imaginable is about to inadvertently turn into the summer that changes everything. Adventureland, a self-professedly "funtastic" Pennsylvania amusement park, appears to be the bane of recent college graduate's James Brennan's existence. He previously had big plans to spend the summer on a life-altering trek through Europe that would initiate him into real adult life. But when his family suffers an economic downturn in the middle of the Reagan 80s, James' only summer trip is straight to a minimum wage job manning a game booth so existentially bankrupt, no one is even allowed to win the giant stuffed panda. Yet, Adventureland isn't quite what it seems on the surface. For behind the cloying cotton candy aroma, the grating disco songs and the near pathological customers, there's a whole other world of misfit friends, hidden dreams and most incredibly, after-work encounters with the alluringly sharp-tongued arcade girl, Em Lewin. And when James discovers the hard-won courage to go to battle for Em, the result is a savagely funny yet sweetly heart-felt and unexpected encounter with "real adult life."
Director
Greg Mottola
Cast
Jesse Eisenberg
Kristen Stewart
Martin Starr
Bill Hader
Kristen Wiig
Ryan Reynolds
Paige Howard
Kevin Breznahan
Mary Birdsong
Josh Pais
Matthew Bush
Michael Zegen
Marc Grapey
Barrett Hackney
Dan Bittner
Declan Baldwin
Joe Pawlenko
Margarita Levieva
Jack Gilpin
Wendie Malick
Kelsey Ford
Ryan Mcfarland
Todd Cioppa
Stephen Mast
Adam Kroloff
Moe Slinger
Jesse Slinger
Jack Baldwin
Kimisha Renee Davis
Russell Steinberg
Andrew Ransom
Joe Sanderson
Cliff Chen
Rob Orr
Eric Schaeffer
Vanessa Wanger
Gennaro Disilvio
Alexis Ferrante
Zachary Palmer
Ian Harding
Ashtin Petrella
Amy Landis
Janine Viola
Alana Hixson
Erin Cappiccie
Kenneth Kellers
Mike Zegen
Crew
Unrico Abbondanza
Blane Allan
Glenn Allen
Alexander Andres
Diana Ascher
Demian Aspinwall
Jennifer Baldauf
Declan Baldwin
Chris Barbosa
Allan Barch
Mark Barill
Timothy Barnhill
Mitchell Barutha
Alyssa Batchelor
Mike Bearer
Stephen J Beatrice
Garry Gary Beers
Patty Bell
Jim Belletier
Ian Berkowitz
Ian Berkowitz
Mary Beschen
Michael Bird
Kara Blanchard
Ferdinand Boland
Robert Boland
Vincent Borrelli
David Bowie
David Bowie
Keith R Bradley
Lisa Bradley
K C Brady
Inna Braude
Dennis J. Braun
Kevin Breznahan
William Bricker
Lisa Brosek
Craig T. Brown
Peter Brown
Rebecca Brown
Theodore A. Brown
Keith Brzozowski
Jarrett Buba
Paul Bucciarelli
Matthew Bulleri
George Bunce
Robert Buncher
Mark Burgess
Shannon Burkett
Ellie Burrows
Darcie Buterbaugh
Brian Buzzelli
Daragh Byrne
Rob E C
Maurice Cabrera
Jason Calabro
John Cale
Colleen Callaghan
Blanca Camacho
Robert Cappp
Anne Carey
Chris Carlisle
Jeff Caron
Roderick R Carter
Oliver Cary
Cristina Casanas
Ray Cervenak
Ben Cheah
Ben Cheah
Renne Chesnic
Julie Chill
Alex Chilton
Ed Chisolm
Jorgen Christensen
Wang Chung
Frank Cinelli
John Codi
Alison Cohen
Alison Cohen
Wendy Cohen
Ben Collins
Diane Collins
Paula D. Collins
Ryan Collison
Michael Come
John Coots
Darren Costin
Patrick Coughlan
David Coverdale
Jen Cox
W. Kiely Cronin
Lex Crow
John Crowley
Rick Crumrine
Lynne Curtis
Darien D'alfonso
Bobby Dall
Pat Dames
Marc W Davis
Sherry A Deberon
Tom Deluca
Michael Des Barres
Jon Dieringer
Katie Diesinger
Dino Distefano
Tony Dixon
James Domorski
Fred Donatelli
Lauren B Donnelly
Kenneth Downing
Adam Dunoff
Zachary Dwyer
Chris Edborg
Ray Edwards
Tim Elder
Jim Emswiller
Adam Escott
Deborah Esposito
Alison L Evans
Michael Falbo
David Farr
Andrew Farriss
John Farriss
Tim Farriss
Robert W Fazio
Nicholas Feldman
Greg Felmey
Scott Ferguson
Scott Ferguson
Marc Ferrari
Dann Fink
Neil Finn
Gail Fitzgibbons
Bart Flaherty
Jeffrey Francek
William Franko
Matthew Fridg
Richard Friedlander
Betsy Friedman
Jessa Gabler
Brian Gallagher
James Gallagher
Simon Gallup
Daniel Garrigan
Eileen Garrigan
Thomas Garrigan
Abbot Genser
Chris Gerbert
Christy Gerhart
Shani Geva
Larry Geyer
Irv Gooch
Ken Goodstein
Ann Goulder
Louis Grammatico
Pasquale Greco
Pasquale Greco
Bonnie Greenberg
Nick Griffin
Nick Griffin
Lauren Haber
Rob Halford
Alex Mary Hamilton
Kevin Harner
Grant Hart
Jim Hartz
Dan Hassid
Dave Hastings
Lisa Hatcher
Anna Hawkins
Jim Heastings
Don Hedenburg
Virginia M. Herdman
John D Hicks
John Hicks
Albert E Hippert
John Hoelzel
Chris Hoerger
Owen Holland
Dan Holt
Ted Hope
William Horberg
Mike Howells
Laura Hudock
Jack Hues
Kristopher Hummel
Jeff Husser
Michael Hutchence
Smith Hutchings
Sharon Ilson
Sharon Ilson
Meredith Jacobson-marciano
Mick Jagger
Terry James
Kathleen Jandrokovic
David Jockel
Bruce Anthony Johannesson
David Johansen
Bobby Johanson
Armistead Johnson
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Miscellaneous Notes
Nominated for the 2009 Spirit Award for Best Screenplay by Film Independent (FIND).
Released in United States Spring April 3, 2009
Released in United States on Video August 25, 2009
Released in United States January 2009
Released in United States March 2009
Released in United States June 2009
Shown at South by Southwest Film Festival (Spotlight Premieres) March 13-21, 2009.
Shown at Edinburgh International Film Festival (Directors' Showcase) June 17-28, 2009.
Released in United States Spring April 3, 2009
Released in United States on Video August 25, 2009
Released in United States January 2009 (Shown at Sundance Film Festival (Premieres) January 15-25, 2009.)
Released in United States March 2009 (Shown at South by Southwest Film Festival (Spotlight Premieres) March 13-21, 2009.)
Released in United States June 2009 (Shown at Edinburgh International Film Festival (Directors' Showcase) June 17-28, 2009.)
Project was included on the 2007 Black List.
