American Pie Reunion Cast
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American Reunion (also known as American Pie 4: Reunion or American Pie: Reunion in certain countries[3]) is a 2012 American romantic sex comedy film written and directed by Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg. It is the fourth and final installment in the American Pie theatrical series. The film's ensemble cast features many actors who reprise their roles from the previous three films, including Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan, Chris Klein, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Seann William Scott, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Eugene Levy, Tara Reid, and Mena Suvari, among others. The film follows former East Great Falls High School classmates who return to their hometown for a reunion for their graduating class.[4]
Thirteen years after their high school graduation, Jim Levenstein lives in the Chicago area with his wife Michelle and their two-year-old son. Chris "Oz" Ostreicher works as a sportscaster in Los Angeles with his unfaithful supermodel girlfriend Mia and is clearly unhappy, Kevin is married and works from home as an architect, Paul Finch claims to have been traveling the world, and Steven Stifler works as an office temp for a verbally abusive boss.
Former classmate John, one half of the "MILF" duo, organizes the Class of 1999 high school reunion in East Great Falls, Michigan. Jim and Michelle return to Jim's dad's house, where he encounters his neighbor Kara, whom he used to babysit. Kara is almost 18.
At a local bar, Jim, Oz, Kevin, and Finch meet Selena, Michelle's friend from band, and Stifler appears unexpectedly. The next day, at the beach, Oz meets his high school girlfriend, Heather, who is dating a cardiologist, Ron, and Kevin reconnects with high school sweetheart Vicky. Stifler destroys Kara's boyfriend's jet-ski, much to the disapproval of the guys. That night, they stumble upon Kara's birthday party. Kara gets drunk; Jim drives her home, and she tries to seduce him. Kevin wakes up next to Vicky and assumes they had drunken sex.
Jim and Michelle attend a party hosted by Stifler and bring Jim's widower dad along, who Stifler gets drunk. Kevin confronts Vicky, who maintains they did not have sex. Mia takes ecstasy, and Ron humiliates Oz. Heather comforts Oz, and they reconcile with a kiss before Mia and her get into a fight. Jim's dad meets Stifler's mom.
Michelle, concerned about the recent lack of sex in their marriage, attempts to have BDSM sex with Jim but is interrupted by Kara. Her boyfriend arrives and a fight breaks out between his friends and Jim's. Michelle finds out that Kara seduced Jim and tried to lose her virginity to him. Jim tells Michelle he does not care about Kara. Upset, both Kara and Michelle leave. The police arrest Finch for stealing his boss's motorcycle, which Stifler thinks is funny. Exasperated by Stiffler's immaturity, the guys rally to Finch's side, reiterating they dislike Stifler. Distraught, Stifler ends the party.
The next morning, Jim's dad offers him advice on how to fix his marriage. Finch admits to being an assistant manager at Staples. The guys ultimately learn that despite Stifler's immature behavior, he genuinely cares about them. They then apologize to him; they also sympathize with him when they realize how unhappy he is, and insist that high school would not have been fun without him.
Stifler quits his job but not before standing up to his boss and they head to the reunion together: Kevin reconciles with Vicky; Finch makes amends for lying to Selena; Oz reunites with Heather after breaking up with Mia and Stifler punches Ron for threatening Oz. Jim reconciles with Michelle and Nadia (who appears with a man by her side) interrupts them having sex but is pleased to see them still together. Jessica reveals that she is a lesbian, and with Stifler's help, Sherman hooks up with Loni.
The next morning: Jim and Kara apologize to each other; Oz plans to stay in town with Heather; Finch plans a trip with Selena to Europe; and Stifler drops subtle hints about sleeping with Finch's mom. Kevin proposes a pact for them to reunite once a year.
In October 2008, Universal Pictures announced it was planning to produce a fourth theatrically released sequel to the first film.[5] In April 2010, the film entered pre-production, with Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg signing on to write and direct with plans to reunite the whole cast of the primary series.[6]
In March 2011, it was announced that Jason Biggs, Seann William Scott and Eugene Levy had signed on to reprise their roles.[7] Biggs and Scott were granted executive producer credits and also helped convince the other previous cast members to return.[8] In April 2011, Alyson Hannigan, Chris Klein, and Mena Suvari signed on.[9][10][11] The following month, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Tara Reid, Eddie Kaye Thomas,[12] Shannon Elizabeth,[13] and Jennifer Coolidge[14] signed on. In June and July 2011, John Cho[15] and Natasha Lyonne[16] were the last returning cast to sign on.
On May 18, 2011, a casting call went out for the character "Kara", a role that involved "upper frontal nudity".[17] Ali Cobrin was cast in the role. National Football League wide receiver Chad Ochocinco and actor Neil Patrick Harris have cameo roles.[18][19]
During the last week of July, production moved to Cumming to film at Mary Alice Park on Lake Lanier and included about 100 extras.[24] Moore said the beach at the lake looks similar to a Lake Michigan setting, which is the state in which the film is set. The production company paid $23,000 to have full access to the property for a week.[24] Suvari finished filming her scenes on August 4.[25]
The two score tracks were recorded by a 60-70 piece orchestra conducted by John Ashton Thomas who also orchestrated Workman's score for the orchestral sessions. The orchestra was recorded at the Eastwood Scoring Stage at the Warner Bros. lot by Shawn Murphy who also mixed the score.
The DVD and Blu-ray discs were released on July 10, 2012 in North America.[27] The film was also released in a box set titled the "American Pie Quadrilogy" on August 22, 2012 in Australia. The theatrical version was available on iTunes a few days ahead of time, as an "Early Digital Release". It was released on September 10, 2012 in the United Kingdom.[citation needed]
The charm of American Pie was the relative youth and navet of the characters. It was all happening for the first time, and they had the single-minded obsession with sex typical of many teenagers. American Reunion has a sense of dj-vu, but it still delivers a lot of nice laughs. Most of them for me came thanks to Stifler... If you liked the earlier films, I suppose you gotta see this one. Otherwise, I dunno.
After some strained "Remember the time..." callbacks to 13-year-old gags, American Reunion gets comfortable and funny, as Hurwitz and Schlossberg hit familiar marks from unexpected angles, while the ensemble interplay is "routine" in the best sense of the word. Taken altogether, the Pie movies offer a cohesive worldview, showing each of life's stages as the setting for fresh-yet-familiar catastrophes, relieved by a belief in sex, however ridiculous it might look, as a restorative force. The recipe is so durable and the sustained character work so second-skin by now, one can imagine the Pie films keeping with the dramatis personae through middle age and into the problems of geriatric love, a raunch-comic version of Britain's documentary Up series. American Midlife Crisis? American Retirement? American Funeral? Let's go!
Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave American Reunion a positive review of two and half stars out of four saying, "American Reunion reminds us what we liked about the original: the way the movie sweetened its raunch to build a rooting interest in these characters."[35]
In August 2017, Seann William Scott said in an interview that the fourth film probably had not made enough at the domestic box office to warrant another film.[37] In August 2018, Tara Reid said she met with the directors, with them saying that the fifth film will happen, and that filming could begin soon.[38] In September 2022, it was announced that Universal 1440 was developing another spin off American Pie Presents movie with Sujata Day.[39]
Since "American Pie," Biggs starred in Woody Allen's "Anything Else" and had roles in Kevin Smith's "Jersey Girl" and such films as "Saving Silverman," ''Prozac Nation" and "Eight Below," while giving the small-screen a try with the TV comedy "Mad Love."
In "American Reunion," Jim's settled in with Michelle (Alyson Hannigan), whom he married in "American Wedding." Despite having a young son, Jim's still finding himself in compromising sexual situations, this time with the hot 18-year-old who had a crush on him when he babysat her as a child.
"In terms of headspace, I think he's surprised to find himself in really a similar sort of scenario as the first film, and frankly, all the films, which is to say, he is sexually frustrated," Biggs said. "He's like, 'You know, haven't I grown up? I've got a wife and a kid. How is this possible?'"
"She'll probably be worried about her son being a teenager, because he's got half of Jim's genes," Hannigan said. "So maybe she'll be like, looking at boarding schools, military schools, like on a remote island. Where all the girls will be safe."
After party-boy Stifler, Scott has kept a busy big-screen career going with "Dude, Where's My Car?", "Road Trip," ''The Dukes of Hazzard," ''The Rundown" and "Role Models." His latest, the hockey tale "Goon," has just opened.
"I think Stifler's been waiting for the high school reunion since the day he graduated high school," Scott said. "He doesn't grow up a whole lot. It's just enough where he, in this movie, he becomes a little bit more human. ... For him, high school was awesome, and he doesn't really know how he fits in. I don't know how much he's going to change after we see him in this movie. I think that's probably enough for him for the next five years."
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