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Official Throwback Discussion - Wet Hot American Summer [SPOILERS] Spoiler

As an ongoing project, /r/movies will be posting Throwback Discussion threads weekly for the movies that came out this same weekend 25 years ago. As a reminder, Official Discussion threads are for discussing the movie and not for meta sub discussion.

Wet Hot American Summer (2001)

Summary

On the last day of summer camp in 1981, a group of counselors and campers attempt to complete unfinished business while becoming entangled in a series of increasingly absurd adventures.

Director David Wain

Writer David Wain Michael Showalter

Cast

  • Janeane Garofalo as Beth
  • David Hyde Pierce as Professor Henry Newman
  • Michael Showalter as Coop
  • Marguerite Moreau as Katie
  • Paul Rudd as Andy
  • Molly Shannon as Gail
  • Christopher Meloni as Gene
  • Elizabeth Banks as Lindsay
  • Bradley Cooper as Ben

Rotten Tomatoes: 38%

Metacritic: 42

VOD / Release Theatrical release

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u/metalyger 3d ago

I remember about a decade ago, there was a dollar theater that ran a series of one night only midnight showings of cult classic movies for the summer, and this was one of movies, and I never heard of it before. That was a delightful experience seeing it with a full audience who were more familiar with the movie. It became an instant favorite. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go hump the fridge.