Blog: THE FIRE WIRE

Adventureland is a sweet coming of age comedy-drama written and produced by Greg Mottola (the director of Superbad) based on his own experiences working at an amusement park in the late 1980s. Jesse Eisenberg is James, a pothead virgin who is romantically interested in Em (Kristen Stewart), who is sneaking off with married handyman Mike (Ryan Reynolds). Fueled by a fun 80's soundtrack, the humor is largely delivered by Saturday Night Live's Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig as the park owners and Martin Starr as a Jewish brainiac who sees anti-Semitism in every first date. As summer comes to a [...]