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2009

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A comedy set in the summer of 1987 and centred around a recent college grad (Eisenberg) who takes a nowhere job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world. Read more

Starring	Kristen Stewart, Ryan Reynolds, Bill Hader, Martin Starr
Director	Greg Mottola
Genres	Comedy, Romance

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Stewart and Mulligan up for BAFTA Rising Star Award
- 13 Jan 2010
Twilight star Kristen Stewart will go up against actress Carey Mulligan as they fight it out for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Rising Star Award. The actresses have made the shortlist for the prestigious honour, the only BAFTA voted for by the public, which recognises new young talent. Stewart and An Education star Mulligan are nominated alongside Nicholas Hoult (A Single Man), Jesse Eisenberg (Adventureland) and French actor Tahar Rahim (A Prophet). The award will be Read more
Timberlake for Facebook movie?
- 24 Sep 2009
Justin Timberlake is to star as the founder of social networking site Facebook in a new movie, according to reports. The SexyBack singer will play Facebook founding president Sean Parker, according to Daily Variety. Adventureland star Jesse Eisenberg and The Other Boleyn Girl actor Andrew Garfield have also been lined up to star in the project, which starts filming in Boston, Massachusetts next month (Oct09). The film will focus on the success of Facebook, which was created in 2004. It... Read more
Eisenberg has no fun at the fair
- 23 Jun 2009
Actor Jesse Eisenberg had a hard time filming theme park scenes for his new movie Adventureland - because he hates fairgrounds. The Cursed star avoided amusement parks as a child because the food made him sick and he was terrified he would die on the white-knuckle rides. And he admits shooting Adventureland - in which he plays a college graduate who takes a low-paid job at a theme park - brought back a flood of frightening childhood memories. He says, "There was a local fairground near my... Read more
Feature: Ryan Reynolds
- 15 Jun 2011
Warner Bros seems a little nervous about Green Lantern. Usually studios like to tease us with as little information as possible about upcoming blockbusters, the way the same studio did with Inception, for example. So is it a mark of confidence in the material, or panic, that accounts for the eight (eight!!) clips the studio released to the internet last week? It’s a strategy that worked well for Borat a few years back, but in that case the gags were self-sufficient, you really didn’ Read more
The Hurt Locker makes first Oscars noise
- 20 Oct 2009
Kathryn Bigelow's hard-hitting war drama The Hurt Locker has emerged as an early Oscars favourite after picking up a string of nominations for the upcoming Gotham Independent Film Awards, one of the season's first big prizegivings. The movie will be up against Amreeka, Big Fan, The Maid and A Serious Man in the Best Feature category, while star Jeremy Renner will fight for the Breakthrough Actor prize and he and his castmates are up for Best Ensemble Performance. Meanwhile, director Bigelow... Read more

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  Inspired by writer/director Greg Mottola's (SUPERBAD) own true-life job-from-hell experience, ADVENTURELAND stars THE EDUCATION OF CHARLIE BANKS' Jesse Eisenberg as an uptight recent college graduate who discovers that he'll have to get a degrading minimum-wage job at a local amusement park instead ...

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  A comedy set in the summer of 1987 and centred around a recent college grad (Eisenberg) who takes a nowhere job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world....