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About The Movie
| Director |
Jeff
Schaffer (feature film debut)
Director Notes: (3/8/03) "Variety" reported recently
(2/25/03) that the Directors Guild of America has shot down the
possiblity of Alec Berg, David Mandel and Jeff Schaffer all receiving
a "directing trio" credit (even though they still intend
to direct the film as a trio).
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| Screenwriter |
Alec
Berg David Mandel and Jeff Schaffer (writing team of Dr.
Seuss' The Cat in the Hat)
DreamWorks bought their spec script for
$3 million
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| Distributor |
Dreamworks
Pictures
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| Production
Company |
The
Montecito Picture Company (Old
School, Road
Trip)
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| Filming |
Production
is scheduled to start in April, 2003 in Prague, the Czech Republic
(with possibly some location shoots elsewhere in Europe) on a budget
of $20 million.
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| Lead
Actors: |
Lucy
Lawless
Michelle
Trachtenberg (Mieke) - Last seen as "Dawn" in Buffy
The Vampire Slayer
Travis
Wester (Scotty Thomas)
Jacob Pitts (Cooper)
Scott Mechlowicz
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| Genre |
Comedy,
Romance, Teen |
| Premise |
This
movie's premise shares similarities with two recent comedy hits.
Like Bringing
Down the House, the premise gets its start by someone's confusion
over "who's who" in a photograph as part of a pen pal/e-mail
relationship. When the German pen pal that a high school student,
Scotty (Wester), has been using to help him get an "A"
in German (by translating his homework over the Internet) for years
suggests that they meet, the boy's reaction is to freak out, thinking
that "Mieke" is a) a guy and b) some sort of older sexual
stalker, looking for a young boyfriend. When he discovers to his
delight that his pen pal is actually a cute fraulein (Trachtenberg),
he and his best friend, Cooper (Pitts (who tries to con his summer
internship boss into thinking he's still in America), fly to Europe
after graduation to meet her...
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| Lucy's
Role |
Role:
'Madam VanDerSexxx And
from the interview in Out
Magazine - August 2003
In "The Ugly Americans", I'm playing the female Frank'N'Furter
character, a sort of S/M madam.
"I
play crazy Madam Van der Sexx who runs an Amsterdam brothel where
one of the young boys finds his way into a very compromising situation
which prevents him from sitting down for two weeks. It was
really fun. A classy operation -- one of those movies that's
real dumb and real funny. The script was done by Seinfeld
writers and they're brilliant. It really ought to be the next
American Pie or Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure."
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