Superbad director Greg Mottola's semi-autobiographical 1980s-set amusement-park romantic comedy stars The Squid and the Whale's Jesse Eisenberg as James, a Renaissance studies college grad whose pre-graduate school plans for the great European summer tour collapse when his parents tell him they can't finance his trip. As James puts it, "Unless someone wants help restoring a fresco, I'm screwed." Instead, he ends up taking a job at a mildly seedy theme park called Adventureland. "A hilarious coming-of-age tale that will speak to anyone who ever had the job from hell but still wouldn't trade the experience for anything." (Sundance Film Festival) more at miramax.com/adventureland.html 35mm
2009, color, 1 hour 30 minutes, USA