Wet Hot American Summer

Wet Hot American Summer

2001 · 97 min · EN · R · 6.2 (884 votes)
Dir. David Wain · Starring Janeane Garofalo, David Hyde Pierce, Michael Showalter, Marguerite Moreau, Paul Rudd, Zak Orth · Music Craig Wedren

High times. Hard bodies. Soft rock.

Comedy

The setting is Camp Firewood, the year 1981. It's the last day before everyone goes back to the real world, but there's still a summer's worth of unfinished business to resolve. At the center of the action is camp director Beth, who struggles to keep order while she falls in love with the local astrophysics professor. He is busy trying to save the camp from a deadly piece of NASA's Skylab which is hurtling toward earth. All that, plus: a dangerous waterfall rescue, love triangles, misfits, cool kids, and talking vegetable cans. The questions will all be resolved, of course, at the big talent show at the end of the day.

VIBE

Dive into a gloriously unhinged, sun-drenched fever dream of 80s summer camp chaos. It's a rapid-fire barrage of absurd humor, awkward romance, and hilariously exaggerated adolescent angst, all wrapped in a thick blanket of retro nostalgia. Expect an ensemble cast delivering peak irreverence.

absurdistnostalgicchaoticirreverentsillyfreneticensemble comedy80s homagecult classicabsurdist humoradolescencefirst lovefriendshipnostalgia
adolescencesummer camp
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