Wet Hot American Summer (2001) on Netflix
A piece of Skylab is falling toward Camp Firewood on the last day of the 1981 season. Beth falls for Henry Newman, an astrophysics professor, and Coop pines for Katie.
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Plot summary
Camp Firewood is finishing its 1981 season, and the counselors have one day to settle what the summer left undone. Cook Gene, a Vietnam War veteran, tries to keep his sexual fetishes hidden. Coop is in love with Katie, who is dating the inconsiderate Andy. Drama instructors Ben and Susie are organizing the final evening's talent show, and Gail, the arts and crafts instructor, has a breakdown during class. Beth, who runs the camp, asks Henry Newman, an astrophysics professor vacationing nearby, to teach the campers about space. He and a group of children work out that a piece of Skylab will come down that evening, probably onto the camp.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Wet Hot American Summer (2001)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Principal photography lasted 28 days in May 2000 and, according to director David Wain, it rained on every day of shooting; in many interior scenes the rain seen outside turns to sun as soon as characters step outside.
- Director David Wain later revealed the film actually cost $1.8 million to make, even though it was promoted at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival as a $5 million production in an attempt to attract a bigger offer from distributors.
- The cast, including Paul Rudd, was paid so little for the low-budget production that Rudd has said he is not even sure he ever received any payment for appearing in the film.
- Professional wrestler Orange Cassidy built his slacker persona around Paul Rudd's character Andy from the film, going so far as to use the Jefferson Starship song "Jane," heard over the film's opening credits, as his entrance music.
