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Adventureland
Directed by
Greg Mottola
R
2009
1h 47m
Comedy
,
Drama
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and more
6.8
89%
61%
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In the summer of 1987, a college graduate takes a 'nowhere' job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world.
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Cast of Adventureland
Jesse Eisenberg
James Brennan
Kristen Stewart
Em Lewin
Martin Starr
Joel
Kristen Wiig
Paulette
Bill Hader
Bobby
Ryan Reynolds
Mike Connell
Margarita Levieva
Lisa P.
Jack Gilpin
Mr. Brennan
Josh Pais
Mr. Lewin
Wendie Malick
Mrs. Brennan
Mary Birdsong
Francy
Matt Bush
Tommy Frigo
Paige Howard
Sue O'Malley
Dan Bittner
Pete O'Malley
Barret Hackney
Munch
Michael Zegen
Eric
Kimisha Renee Davis
Kelly
Vanessa Hope
Ronnie Connell
Kelsey Ledgin
Arlene
Ryan McFarland
Brad
Moe Slinger
Loud Kid #1
Todd Cioppa
Velvet Touch Manager
Jesse Slinger
Loud Kid #2
Jack Baldwin
Barfing Kid
Stephen Mast
Rich
Adam Kroloff
Adult Contestant
Kevin Breznahan
Molly Hatchet T-Shirt Guy
Marc Grapey
Panda Con Dad
Andrew Ransom
Foreigner Tribute Band Member
Joe Sanderson
Foreigner Tribute Band Member
Cliff Chien
Foreigner Tribute Band Member
Russell Steinberg
Foreigner Tribute Band Member
Rob Orr
Foreigner Tribute Band Member
Eric Schaeffer
Foreigner Tribute Band Member
Gennaro DiSilvio
Nicky
Alexis Ferrante
Nicky's Girlfriend
Joe Pawlenko
Nicky's Pal
Zachary Palmer
Joel's Younger Brother
Declan Baldwin
Male Customer
Ian Harding
Wealthy Prepster
Ashtin Petrella
Prepster's Girlfriend
Amy Landis
Mrs. Ostrow
Janine Viola
Mrs. Frigo
Alana Hixson
Pretty Girl #1
Erin Cappiccie
Pretty Girl #2
Lisa Lamendola
Foxy Cougar (uncredited)
Jackson Nunn
Dancer (uncredited)
Adventureland Ratings & Reviews
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
Adventureland earns its edge-of-adulthood sweetness and has characters with real hearts under their goofy T-shirts.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Adventureland isn't as clever as Kicking, and not nearly as hilarious as Superbad, but it's still a sweet little memory ache, a Proustian cookie co-flavored with semiotics and Whitesnake.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Audiences expecting another dumb wallow will be startled, and I hope enlivened, by this movie's core of feeling.
Houston Chronicle
Amy Biancolli
The youths of Superbad were a little bit younger, a little more likable, their dirty-virgin wit more hilarious [than in Adventureland].
Lessons of Darkness
Nick Schager
Content to occupy that middle ground where insights are authentic but far from revelatory and comedy is more amiable than riotous.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Yes, you've seen much of it before, and the nervous James character is now officially a cliché. But Stewart makes you care anyway. This, folks, is an actress.
Flavorwire
Jason Bailey
A film so tuned in to the pre-collegiate experience that scenes which play as comedy to some audiences will land as harrowing tragedy to others.
The New Yorker
David Denby
The story is semi-autobiographical, but has a gentler touch than his prior work on Superbad, and certainly relies less on slapstick episodes.
HitFix
Daniel Fienberg
"Adventureland" is the sort of film that seems simultaneously slavishly derivative of countless other coming-of-age stories, but also admirably personal and specific.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
It proves Mottola has a sweet sensibility for intimate grins, as well as broad yuks.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Thanks to an exceptionally deft touch, Mottola manages to capture the absurdity and anguish of young adulthood, while never sacrificing meaning on the altar of crude humor.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
With Adventureland, Mottola is using some of the stock from his Superbad triumph to make the kind of personal film he should be making, that he probably would have liked to have made in the years following Daytrippers.
Slate
Dana Stevens
Adventureland, Greg Mottola's tale of coming of age in Pittsburgh in 1987, has the note-perfect melancholy of a classic young adult novel.
Film.com
Cole Haddon
Characters like James and Stewart's Em feel out of place for their own reasons, and consequently provide just enough perspective for us to remember the absurdity of the culture around them, but never with disdain.
Dallas Morning News
Christopher Kelly
There's no mistaking Mottola's sincerity or his talent.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
Like its models, this is funny, smart, and complacent.
The New Republic
Christopher Orr
One of Mottola's best jokes involves Falco's "Rock Me Amadeus".... [I]t's hard to imagine a better use of nostalgia: to remind us of the many things we miss from a particular time, and the one reason we would never, ever want to go back.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
With a cast that believed in one another and a writer-director who believed he didn't have to follow up Superbad with SuperEvenBadder, Adventureland is the kind of adventure we could all use more of.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
The film, written and directed by Greg Mottola, plants its flag in thoroughly explored territory, but that familiarity turns out to be integral to its loose and scruffy appeal.
USA Today
Claudia Puig
While Adventureland may shift moods suddenly and meander, the highlight is Eisenberg's ability to endearingly convey gawkiness and mortification.
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