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An American Werewolf in Paris

  • 19971997
  • RR
  • 1h 38m
IMDb RATING
5.1/10
25K
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POPULARITY
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An American Werewolf in Paris (1997)
An American man unwittingly gets involved with French werewolves who have developed a serum allowing them to transform at will.
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An American man unwittingly gets involved with French werewolves who have developed a serum allowing them to transform at will.An American man unwittingly gets involved with French werewolves who have developed a serum allowing them to transform at will.An American man unwittingly gets involved with French werewolves who have developed a serum allowing them to transform at will.
IMDb RATING
5.1/10
25K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
6,499
68
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    • Director
      • Anthony Waller
    • Writers
      • John Landis(characters in An American Werewolf in London)
      • Tim Burns
      • Tom Stern
    • Stars
      • Tom Everett Scott
      • Julie Delpy
      • Vince Vieluf
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Anthony Waller
    • Writers
      • John Landis(characters in An American Werewolf in London)
      • Tim Burns
      • Tom Stern
    • Stars
      • Tom Everett Scott
      • Julie Delpy
      • Vince Vieluf
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 195User reviews
    • 47Critic reviews
    • 31Metascore
    • Awards
      • 3 wins & 1 nomination

    Videos1

    Official Trailer
    Trailer 1:42
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    Photos717

    Timothy Olyphant and Ron Galella at an event for An American Werewolf in Paris (1997)
    An American Werewolf in Paris (1997)
    Julie Delpy and Tom Everett Scott in An American Werewolf in Paris (1997)
    Julie Delpy and Tom Everett Scott in An American Werewolf in Paris (1997)
    An American Werewolf in Paris (1997)
    An American Werewolf in Paris (1997)
    An American Werewolf in Paris (1997)
    Julie Bowen, Thierry Lhermitte, and Tom Everett Scott in An American Werewolf in Paris (1997)
    Julie Delpy in An American Werewolf in Paris (1997)
    An American Werewolf in Paris (1997)
    An American Werewolf in Paris (1997)
    An American Werewolf in Paris (1997)

    Top cast

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    Tom Everett Scott
    Tom Everett Scott
    • Andy McDermott
    Julie Delpy
    Julie Delpy
    • Serafine Pigot
    Vince Vieluf
    Vince Vieluf
    • Brad
    Phil Buckman
    Phil Buckman
    • Chris
    Julie Bowen
    Julie Bowen
    • Amy Finch
    Pierre Cosso
    Pierre Cosso
    • Claude
    Thierry Lhermitte
    Thierry Lhermitte
    • Dr. Thierry Pigot
    Tom Novembre
    • Inspector LeDuc
    Maria Machado
    Maria Machado
    • Chief Bonnet
    Ben Salem Bouabdallah
    • Detective Ben Bou
    Serge Basso
    • Officer with Flashlight
    Charles Maquignon
    Charles Maquignon
    • Bouncer
    Jochen Schneider
    • Lycanthrope
    Alan McKenna
    Alan McKenna
    • Lycanthrope
    Hervé Sogne
    • Lycanthrope
    Edgar Kohn
    • Lycanthrope
    Jean-Claude Deret
    • Professor Martin
    Isabelle Constantini
    • Serafine's Mom (Alex Price-Pigot)
    • Director
      • Anthony Waller
    • Writers
      • John Landis(characters in An American Werewolf in London)
      • Tim Burns
      • Tom Stern
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Julie Delpy now admits that the only reason she made the film was to pay her rent.
    • Goofs
      When Andy bungee jumps off the Eiffel Tower, he hits his head on the rebound. If he had rebounded back from where he was shown, it would have smashed his skull to pieces and killed him instantly.
    • Quotes

      Andy McDermott: So... hey you guy's are werewolves too, huh? Super glad to know you.

      Claude: Andy, I don't think you have accepted the gift that has been given to you, or much less appreciated it. We have a mission, Andy. To purify the world that why we pick our victim's from the scum of society. The governments of the world spend billions on medicine, welfare, charity to what effect? It only keeps alive, the weak, the stupid, the lazy, who breathe and multiply, weakening the human race. All my men I have chosen for their loyalty their dedication to the coming age. But you... you were not to have been. You're an accident, an anomaly. I do not wish to kill you. I pray you will join is in our rise to become the new mankind. Pure free of disease free from the trappings of technological advance, will you join us... Andy?

      Andy McDermott: I don't know. You know that's a big decision. I'm gonna need some time to think about that.

      Claude: Sure.

    • Alternate versions
      When first released on DVD in Australia, the film featured the werewolf baby ending. Subsequent Australian DVD releases feature the more widely seen Statue of Liberty ending.
    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: The Postman/Mr. Magoo/Jackie Brown/An American Werewolf in Paris/Afterglow/The Education of Little Tree (1997)
    • Soundtracks
      Daphnis and Chloe
      Written by Maurice Ravel

      Performed by Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest (as The Royal Gebouw Concert Orchestra)

      Conducted by Riccardo Chailly (as Ricardo Chailly)

      Courtesy of Decca Record Company Limited/London Records

      By Arrangement with PolyGram Film & TV Licensing

      Under License from Arima Corp. and Editions Durand SA

    User reviews195

    Review
    Top review
    5/10
    An American Werewolf in Paris remains good entertainment, due to the claustrophobic scenes, in the club and the sewer, and the nightly chase in the cemetery by the mausoleums
    The start of An American Werewolf in Paris is extremely promising. For about half an hour, we feel like we're watching a horror movie straight from the 80s, with that mocking, light humor that never allows the tension of the story to be dissipated.

    Coming from a fine example of the snuff style (Mute Witness, 1994), Waller was a highly regarded name to assume the responsibility of commanding a bastard son of a classic eighties. To that end, he called on two rising names in the film industry as protagonists, the young Tom Everett Scott, compared to Tom Hanks (including himself) having done a good job in The Wonders; and the beautiful Frenchwoman Julie Delpy, from Before Dawn (95). But Waller wouldn't have been the first choice: John Landis himself had written a rough script and was even advertised as occupant of the director's chair for the six years it took to make the film.

    After a chase scene through the streets of Paris, with the sound of screams muffled by a classic performance, An American Werewolf in Paris features a group of backpacker friends traveling across Europe, scoring points for each achievement on an intimate scale. Andy McDermott (Everett), Brad (Vince Vieluf) and Chris (Phil Buckman) invade the Eiffel Tower at dawn to enjoy the beautiful view. Andy decides to bungee jump, but is interrupted by the presence of the cat Serafine Pigot (Delpy), daughter of David Kessler and Alex Price from the original, about to commit suicide. He saves her from the fatal fall, but ends up hospitalized after a severe shock to the metals in the tower.

    Wanting to find her at any cost, the friends search the Parisian streets for the suicide note, while Andy finds her in the hospital stealing organs to feed. When looking for her, after the girl's contempt, they are invited by the strange Claude (Pierre Cosso) to a night of fun at the "Club de la Lune ", a kind of Titty Twister, created to provide a feast for several werewolves. In the process, saved by Serafine, Andy is wounded in the leg while escaping through the sewer, leaving his friends at the mercy of the creatures. The next day, he's in the girl's care, already undergoing the transformation process when he sees Serafine's dead mother and also his friend Brad, in addition to the strange nightmares that plagued David Kessler in the original.

    The script hits us with a series of jokes involving an undead in a state of decomposition and the story is lost. Of course, a movie like this has to have a bit of humor (one of the strengths of An American Werewolf in London, by the way), but wait... everything has its limits. A movie like that is rich in that silly, ironic and naive teenage humor at the same time, and it works wonderfully. In fact, we have some examples of this humor at the beginning of the film, as in the sequence where Chris, while looking for a note, stares at a girl's breasts, or when Brad, who is trying to read over an old man's shoulder, pretends to be dancing to outwit. It's an inconsequential humor, but it fits perfectly in the mood of these films, having fun. Unfortunately, screenwriters Tim Burns, Tom Stern and Anthony Waller seem to find it more fun to show an undead girl trying to whistle to no avail, as every time she blows a stream of blood comes out of a wound in her cheek or her eye. Ejected. Besides not working as an escape', scenes like these end up destroying the suspense atmosphere built at the beginning of the story. Horror gives way to slavish comedy.

    Unlike the macabre style of the masterpiece, which subtly worked with humor in ghostly apparitions, this one has more scattershot and exaggerated scenes, often leaving horror in the background. The chemistry of the cast is even interesting and promotes an identification with the audience, but the creative freedoms of the script by Tim Burns, Tom Stern and Anthony Waller himself widened the distance with the classic. Among the nonsense, they invented a possibility to end the curse, the cursed being enough to feed on the heart of the werewolf that contaminated him! They also erred in creating a formula that allows for immediate transformation into a werewolf, a solution that only serves to allow monsters to appear without the need for the moon. Remember that in the original, David spends three weeks in the hospital, suffering nightmares and apparitions, until the transformation in the fourth week.

    The script creates interesting situations through the streets of Paris, emulating passages from the previous film, now reinterpreted in another way, as for example, the classic passage of the car pileup in the middle of a full moon night, confusion caused by the werewolf in full attack, but that here it takes on a parodic tone, in broad daylight. Persecutions are also efficiently handled by the sector, trained in monitoring the constant action of young Andy in his new "human condition". However, what was incredibly developed to establish an intriguing atmosphere in the 1981 film is not repeated in this aesthetically inferior sequel, released so long later and with technical resources capable of making an even better story. It didn't happen that way, mainly due to the mistaken work of the visual effects sector, which depend exclusively on digital resources, without the old and functional double of makeup + CGI.

    Werewolves are well conceived and scary indeed. Unfortunately, the composition of the film was poorly done, which means that the animals do not fit perfectly into the environment in which they are inserted, becoming a little lighter, without shadows. What's more, it gets scarier when we can't see clearly where the danger is coming from. Fully revealing the werewolf is visually interesting, but takes some of the tension out of it. The makeup effects created by Rick Baker for the first movie were more effective.

    Wallen's direction is good - he knows how to play with his camera, always adept at capturing really interesting frames. However, the director fails to surprise us: there are few scares and truly tense moments in the story - which is regrettable, as this is the kind of thing we look for in films like this. Still, more than two decades after its release, An American Werewolf in Paris remains good entertainment, due to the claustrophobic scenes, in the club and the sewer, and the nightly chase in the cemetery by the mausoleums. It may not reach the lycanthrope's paw hair from the original movie, but it still provides a good experience.
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    • Release date
      • December 25, 1997 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United Kingdom
      • Netherlands
      • Luxembourg
      • United States
      • France
      • Germany
    • Languages
      • English
      • French
      • German
    • Also known as
      • Американський перевертень у Парижі
    • Filming locations
      • Paris, France
    • Production companies
      • Hollywood Pictures
      • J&M Entertainment
      • Cometstone Pictures
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $25,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $26,570,463
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $7,600,878
      • Dec 28, 1997
    • Gross worldwide
      • $26,570,463
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 38 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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