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.

Director:

Anthony Waller

Writers:

John Landis (characters in An American Werewolf in London), Tim Burns

Stars:

Tom Everett Scott, Julie Delpy, Vince Vieluf

3 wins & 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Tom Everett Scott	...	Andy McDermott
Julie Delpy	...	Serafine Pigot
Vince Vieluf	...	Brad
Phil Buckman	...	Chris
Julie Bowen	...	Amy Finch
Pierre Cosso	...	Claude
Thierry Lhermitte	...	Dr. Thierry Pigot
Tom Novembre	...	Inspector LeDuc
Maria Machado	...	Chief Bonnet
Ben Salem Bouabdallah	...	Detective Ben Bou
Serge Basso	...	Officer with Flashlight
Charles Maquignon	...	Bouncer
Jochen Schneider	...	Lycanthrope
Alan McKenna	...	Lycanthrope
Hervé Sogne	...	Lycanthrope

Storyline

The daughter of the werewolf from AWIL is alive and living in Paris where her mother (from the first film) and stepfather are trying to overcome her lycanthropic disease. A trio of American tourists on a thrill seeking trip around Europe manage to stop her from plunging to her death from the top of the Eiffel tower and are embroiled in a horrific but often hilarious plot involving a secret society of werewolves based in the city and a drug which allows werewolves to change at any time... This time there's no need for a full moon...

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Plot Keywords:

werewolf | full moon | breasts | female werewolf | animal attack | 

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Taglines:

Things are about to get a little hairy.

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Genres:

Comedy | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for werewolf/violence and gore, and for some sexuality/nudity

Did You Know?

Trivia

Having nailed down the preliminary details of the creature, Tom Stern felt he was ready to pitch Sighvatsson and his producing partner Steve Golan. "I had the sculpture (of the werewolf), I had the storyboards done, and I had a pretty good presentation," he said. "I made this big, passionate presentation and Steve Golan was basically like 'well, that's nice, but there's no way they're going to let you direct it. It's not about your idea. It's about finding a bankable director whom the foreign investors will accept as bankable'. At that point, I felt really betrayed because I'd done all this work on a presentation only to find out it was pointless, so I was angry, and I think I kind of showed my anger in that meeting, which was probably not a good career move." From that point, Stern was out as director. Both he and Burns were still officially attached to the project as writers for the moment - just with a different director at the helm.

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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.

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Quotes

Andy McDermott: [Serafine is trying to defibrillate her stepfather] Serafine?
Serafine: Help...
Andy McDermott: [notices what Thierrys vitals are flatlined] Serafine?
Serafine: [crying] The cure-- if he dies, we have no hope.
Andy McDermott: Serafine-- its-- he's gone. Let it go.
Serafine: No.
Andy McDermott: Yes.
Serafine: They killed him. The bastards. We're doomed now.
Andy McDermott: Well, let me have a shot at it.
Serafine: But they ruined the lab--so many years of hard work.
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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.

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Connections

Referenced in Men in Black II (2002)

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Soundtracks

Soup Kitchen
Written by Grant Shanahan
Performed by Eva Trout
Courtesy of Trauma Records

User Reviews

Not as bad as it could have been...

This movie was not a terrible successor to the 1981 classic An American Werewolf in London. There are ways in which it could have been worse. The possibility that Seraphine could have been David's (the werewolf in the original) daughter was presented in a rumor mill while the film was still in post, the idea turned my stomach. Thankfully, they took it in a different direction. The humor is good, the special effects are somewhat lacking, but overall the idea was a great one. Fans of the original shouldn't be mad, the two films stand on their own, as separate entities. Will they make another? The question is already being tossed about, I hear.

Details

Country:

UK Netherlands Luxembourg USA France Germany

Language:

English French German

Release Date:

25 December 1997 (USA)

Also Known As:

An American Werewolf in Paris

Filming Locations:

Studio Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Box Office

Budget:

$25,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$7,600,878, 28 December 1997

Gross USA:

$26,570,463

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$26,570,463

Company Credits

Production Co:

Hollywood Pictures, J&M Entertainment, Cometstone Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

105 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1