Superbad (2007)

Two co-dependent high school seniors are forced to deal with separation anxiety after their plan to stage a booze-soaked party goes awry.

Director:

Greg Mottola

Writers:

Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg

Stars:

Michael Cera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse

11 wins & 24 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Jonah Hill	...	Seth
Michael Cera	...	Evan
Christopher Mintz-Plasse	...	Fogell
Bill Hader	...	Officer Slater
Seth Rogen	...	Officer Michaels
Martha MacIsaac	...	Becca
Emma Stone	...	Jules
Aviva Baumann	...	Nicola (as Aviva)
Joe Lo Truglio	...	Francis the Driver
Kevin Corrigan	...	Mark
Clement Blake	...	Homeless Guy (as Clement E. Blake)
Erica Vittina Phillips	...	Liquor Store Cashier
Joe Nunez	...	Liquor Store Clerk (as Joseph A. Nunez)
Dave Franco	...	Greg the Soccer Player
Marcella Lentz-Pope	...	Gaby

Storyline

Seth and Evan are best friends, inseparable, navigating the last weeks of high school. Usually shunned by the popular kids, Seth and Evan luck into an invitation to a party, and spend a long day, with the help of their nerdy friend Fogell, trying to score enough alcohol to lubricate the party and inebriate two girls, Jules and Becca, so they can kick-start their sex lives and go off to college with a summer full of experience and new skills. Their quest is complicated by Fogell's falling in with two inept cops who both slow and assist the plan. If they do get the liquor to the party, what then? Is sex the only rite of passage at hand?

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Plot Keywords:

short skirt | pig | bacon | miniskirt | bra and panties | 

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Taglines:

Come and Get Some

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Genres:

Comedy

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for pervasive crude and sexual content, strong language, drinking, some drug use and a fantasy/comic violent image - all involving teens

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Sony Pictures [United States]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

17 August 2007 (USA)

Also Known As:

Separation Anxiety

Filming Locations:

4273 Overland Avenue, Culver City, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$20,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$33,052,411, 19 August 2007, Wide Release

Gross USA:

$121,463,226, 21 October 2007

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$169,871,719, 4 May 2008

Company Credits

Production Co:

Columbia Pictures, Apatow Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

113 min 119 min (unrated)

Sound Mix:

SDDS Dolby Digital DTS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Evan Goldberg had an incident involving excess drinking and stripping down in a bathroom at LA's Canter's Deli, and Rogen first heard about it when "coincidentally Joe and Anthony Russo were in Canter's and we overheard these two guys saying 'there's this naked guy drunk and passed out in the bathroom upstairs.'"

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Goofs

When Slater crashes the patrol car into the cement piling, we see the lightpole break off and hear it hit the ground yet in the very next frame the lightpole is back on the piling and is now just dropping sparks.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Evan: Yo.
Seth: Hey, man, I was doing some research for next year and I think I figured out which website I wanna subscribe to. The Vag-Tastic Voyage.

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Crazy Credits

After the end credits, a repeat of Seth's (Jonah Hill) "love you" line is whispered.

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Alternate Versions

When released on home video, the film was made available in an unrated version that had approximately 6 minutes of extra footage (most of which is extensions to existing scenes.)

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Connections

Referenced in 500 Days of Summer (2009)

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Soundtracks

My Favorite Mutiny
Written by Tariq Trotter (as Tarik Collins), Talib Kweli and Boots Riley
Performed by The Coup
Courtesy of Epitaph

User Reviews

Hilarious, gross, yet smart movie

Superbad was an absolutely hilarious film. There were so many mind bogglingly hilarious one-liners in the film that I will need to watch it again to see which ones I missed while I was laughing. This is one movie that I will definitely watch every time they rerun it on cable in the future. It had its completely gross-out teen moments, but those were grounded by its hilariously absurd and witty (also gross) conversations. Michael Cera was great, and most Arrested Development fans should find his performance here just as entertaining as his take on the George Michael character he played on that show. He is absolutely awkward and downright hilarious. Jonah Hill is the funniest he has ever been, confidently spouting out uproariously funny lines at every hot girl in sight.