Adventureland (2009)


Jesse Eisenberg      James Brennan
Kristen Stewart      Em Lewin
Martin Starr         Joel Schiffman
Bill Hader           Bobby
Kristen Wiig         Paulette
Ryan Reynolds        Mike Connell
Kevin Breznahan      Molly Hatchet T-Shirt Guy
Mary Birdsong        Francy
Josh Pais            Mr Lewin
Matthew Bush         Tommy Frigo
Marc Grapey          Panda Con Dad
Barrett Hackney      Munch

Directed by:         Greg Mottola
Produced by:         Bruce Toll, Bill Horberg, Ted Hope


In 1987, James Brennan's dreams of a summer European tour before studying at an Ivy League 
school in New York City are ruined after his parents have a severe career setback. As a 
result, James must get a summer job to cover his upcoming expenses at the decrepit local 
amusement park, Adventureland, where he falls in love with a witty co-worker, Emily Lewin. 
In that bizarrely shady workplace, the young carnies have unforgettable and painful l
earning experiences about life, love and trust while James discovers what he truly values.

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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."