EuroTrip (2004) on Netflix
After his girlfriend Fiona dumps him on graduation day, Scotty Thomas learns that Mieke, the pen pal he knew as Mike, is a young woman. He and Cooper Harris head for Berlin.
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Plot summary
Scotty Thomas graduates from high school in Hudson, Ohio, and his girlfriend Fiona breaks up with him the same day. That night he goes to a party with his best friend Cooper Harris, where a band plays a song about Fiona's affair, and he comes home drunk and angry to find an email from Mieke, the pen pal in Germany he has always called Mike. Mieke offers sympathy and suggests they meet; Cooper warns that Mike could be a predator, and Scotty tells her to stay away. His younger brother Bert mentions that Mieke is a common German girl's name. Scotty then wants to write to her again, but she has blocked his address, so he decides to fly to Europe with Cooper and apologize in person.
Cast
- Cathy Meilsas Mrs. Thomas
- Nial Iskhakovas Bert
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about EuroTrip (2004)
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- The writers tried to move the project to New Line Cinema after DreamWorks founder Steven Spielberg, one of the museum's biggest donors, objected to a scene in which Cooper mistook the Anne Frank House for a brothel. New Line balked too, so the Amsterdam scene was replaced with one involving a dominatrix.
- Although three men directed the film together, the Directors Guild of America forbade the trio from sharing the credit. Schaffer earned sole directing credit only when a production assistant picked his name out of a hat.
- Matt Damon was filming The Brothers Grimm in Prague and agreed to play the punk singer here because it let him shave his head for the wig he wore in Grimm.
- DreamWorks executives, frustrated at the content in post-production, changed the title from Ugly Americans to EuroTrip to lure in fans of Road Trip, which ironically drew backlash from that film's director, Todd Phillips.
SPOILER
The Vatican sequence originally had Mieke not caring about Scott's efforts to meet her, subverting the typical romantic comedy conclusion. Test audiences reacted negatively, so during reshoots the directors replaced it with the scene of the two in a confessional booth.- Lucy Lawless used a fake European accent for her role, although she can be heard in her normal accent during the end credits blooper reel, and the costume she wore was later auctioned to charity in 2004.
