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Adventureland
James has many financial problems and is a university graduate. James is still trying to find a summer job instead of traveling abroad, where circumstances put him in Adventureland, an amusement park. Over time, James maintains a relationship with a captivating colleague at work, where the worst summer ever seems to be good.
1983, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
30 July 1982, Santa Monica, California, USA
24 November 1968, New York City, New York, USA
16 May 1967, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
13 December 1950, Buffalo, New York, USA
October 20, 1970 in England, UK
April 03, 2009
Adventureland earns its edge-of-adulthood sweetness and has characters with real hearts under their goofy T-shirts.
April 03, 2009
The youths of Superbad were a little bit younger, a little more likable, their dirty-virgin wit more hilarious [than in Adventureland].
April 20, 2011
Adventureland's young cast is strong, and, when the film works, it captures the languid limbo of post-adolescent confusion and longing.
September 29, 2011
The messages -- about silver linings in lousy jobs, the collision of hormones and heartstrings, and the adventure of discovering who you really are and what you really want -- ring honest and true, for any era.
June 22, 2013
It's a film of overwhelming goodwill. You'll like everyone in this movie, and you'll leave the theater thinking they would probably like you too.
April 06, 2009
The story is semi-autobiographical, but has a gentler touch than his prior work on Superbad, and certainly relies less on slapstick episodes.
August 26, 2011
Adventureland is ultimately an interesting but flawed mixture of Mottolla's early indie sensibility (The Daytrippers) with some of the more mainstream teen comedy elements of Superbad.
April 06, 2009
Audiences expecting another dumb wallow will be startled, and I hope enlivened, by this movie's core of feeling.
April 03, 2009
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.
September 11, 2009
As a sweet-natured character comedy - and a subtle exercise in generic boundary-pushing - this is a real charmer.
May 27, 2016
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.