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American Wedding
American Wedding film poster
Directed by	Jesse Dylan
Produced by	Chris Moore Warren Zide
Written by	Adam Herz
Starring	Jason Biggs Seann William Scott Alyson Hannigan Eugene Levy
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	August 1, 2003
Running time	96 minutes
Language	English
Budget	~ US$55,000,000
Preceded by	American Pie 2
Followed by	American Pie: Band Camp (spinoff)
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American Wedding (also known as American Pie: The Wedding outside of America or American Pie 3) is the 2003 sequel to the comedy films American Pie (1999) and American Pie 2 (2001). It was written by Adam Herz and directed by Jesse Dylan. The story has the friends from the first two films getting together again, this time to celebrate the wedding of Jim (Jason Biggs) and Michelle (Alyson Hannigan). The film was released in the United States on August 1, 2003, and grossed $104 million in the USA and $123 million overseas on a budget of $55 million. The film is notable for the absences of several of its supporting characters from the first two films, including: Oz (Chris Klein), Sherman (Chris Owen), Heather (Mena Suvari), Vicky (Tara Reid), Nadia (Shannon Elizabeth), and Jessica (Natasha Lyonne). This is because the creators of the previous movies noted it was near impossible to create interesting story lines for all of the main characters, exception being the character Oz, who was originally going to be included, but was written out due to scheduling conflicts. It is also the first (and only) film in the series to be shot in a 2.35:1 aspect ratio.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Music 4 Trivia 5 External links

The film begins with Jim and Michelle having dinner, celebrating their college graduation. Jim intends to propose to Michelle, but receives a phone call from his dad, who says he forgot to give Jim the wedding ring and was on his way. As Jim tries to stall, Michelle gets the impression that he wants a public sex act, and proceeds to perform oral sex on him under the table. When Mr. Levenstein arrives, Jim tries to hide the fact that he's being pleasured. Not knowing Michelle was under the table, Jim's dad expresses his excitement at the proposal. Then, after Michelle bumps her head under the table in shock at hearing about the proposal, all chaos ensues as Jim ends up exposed and has to hike his pants up quickly. Saving face, he swallows what's left of his pride and asks Michelle to marry him. She says yes.

As planning begins, Jim worries that the wedding will be a disaster. Michelle's parents hate him after an accidental scene in which Jim appears to be having sex with their two dogs. Michelle's wedding dress is made by only one designer working for one store, so Jim sets out to find the dress maker for her. And Jim can't dance, but salvation comes in the form of Stifler, who took dance lessons. However, Stifler only teaches Jim to dance on the condition he allow Stifler to attend the wedding (Jim and Michelle had planned to leave Stifler in the dark about the whole event, but he found out accidentally after crashing their engagement party), and that he gets to plan the bachelor party.

Michelle's sister Cadence attends the wedding, and Finch is quickly attracted to her. Sadly, so is Stifler. Upon hearing that Cadence is hoping to attract a decent guy, Stifler adopts a more meek attitude and acts like Finch, and avoids swearing and speaks of philosophy and art, mostly just quoting things Finch has said in the past. But when Finch realizes that Cadence is beginning to tire of the intellectual Stifler, Finch acts rude, crude, and perverted: in other words, like Stifler. However, Cadence begins to catch on that her two suitors are acting like each other, so the question of who she'll choose becomes more complicated. In the end however, Stifler kills the flowers the night before the wedding, and actually feels bad about it, prompting him to bring in the football team he coaches to set up the entire chapel with new flowers. Cadence chooses Stifler, and Finch admits that Stifler was probably better for her. Stifler, angry that he can't hate Finch after such a noble remark, is quickly reminded that Finch did sleep with his mother... twice.

The film features several trademark infamous scenes like the first two films. Stifler is charged with taking care of the bride's wedding ring, but he accidentally feeds it to a dog. Waiting for the dog to defecate, Stifler retrieves the ring in a chocolate wrapper and goes to wash it, but is intercepted by Michelle's mother. Mistaking the by-product for a truffle, Michelle's mother attempts to eat it, giving Stifler no other choice but to eat it himself to save face. Later, during the ceremony, Stifler takes a moment to quickly sniff the ring before handing it to Jim.

In a second scene, Jim's grandmother disapproves of Jim marrying a non-Jew, and refused to let the wedding go on (in reality, Biggs, whose character is Jewish, is Catholic and Hannigan, whose character is Catholic, is Jewish). The two men charged with watching her leave her in a linen closet, just as Cadence invites Stifler to said closet. Arriving there, Stifler mistakes Jim's grandmother for Cadence, and has sex with her. When Finch and Kevin open the door and light up the closet, Stifler is horrified. However, this proves a blessing in disguise, and she no longer cares about who Jim marries, and spends the ceremony winking and flirting with Stifler. Upon Michelle asking what made her so happy, Jim replies "Finch said Stifler talked to her."

In a third scene, Jim gets an electric razor as part of a gift basket for the wedding. Having heard earlier of people shaving their pubes, Jim decides to try it. Once he's done, he goes over to the window of his room and shakes a towel which he's used to collect the pubes in...only to have the hair sucked into the kitchen via its exhaust fan and get all over the wedding cake.

Michelle and Jim eventually get married. At the reception, they dance while Stifler dances with Cadence. Finch is sitting by himself when Stifler's mom arrives. They tell each other they are over each other. However, at the end of the movie it shows Stifler's mom and Finch in the tub having sex. The two men who were supposed to be watching Jim's grandma (John Cho and Justin Isfield, the ushers for the wedding) are watching in awe from the window as Finch goes under the bubbles: "This guy is the master."

• Jason Biggs as Jim Levenstein
• Seann William Scott as Steve Stifler
• Eddie Kaye Thomas as Paul Finch
• Thomas Ian Nicholas as Kevin Myers
• Eugene Levy as Jim's Dad
• Molly Cheek as Jim's Mom
• Jennifer Coolidge as Janine Stifler (Stifler's Mom)
• Alyson Hannigan as Michelle Flaherty
• January Jones as Cadence Flaherty
• Angela Paton as Grandma Levinstein
• Fred Willard as Harold Flaherty
• Deborah Rush as Mary Flaherty
• Amanda Swisten as Fraulein Brandi
• Eric Allan Kramer as Bear/Mr. Belvidere
• Nikki Schieler Ziering as Officer Krystal

The film's soundtrack includes songs by Blue October, The Working Title, Foo Fighters, Feeder, Avril Lavigne, American Hi-Fi, Sum 41, the All-American Rejects and Hot Action Cop. Badly Drawn Boy and The Libertines also have songs in the feature. Note that most songs used were already singles. And, this is the first film to feature the song "Laid" (Matt Nathanson covering the band James) in both the trailers and the opening sequence. Notably, it is also the only film to not play the song "Mrs. Robinson" in a scene where Finch has sex with Stifler's mother. It is, also, the only film in the American Pie trilogy to not include a blink-182 song.

• Fred Willard and Deborah Rush (who play the mother and father, Harold and Mary Flaherty, in the movie) have also starred as the mother and father in the movie Idle Hands.
• Chris Klein opted not to star in this film, claiming that it would prove a flop. Instead Klein chose to star in Rollerball, which proved itself to be a flop, while American Wedding was a success at the box office. His character, Chris Ostreicher, is not mentioned at all in the film as a result. A deleted scene revealed that Oz would have been able to get back from Spain for the originally planned wedding date.

• Official homepage
• American Wedding at the Internet Movie Database

American Pie series v • d • e
Main Series:	American Pie | American Pie 2 | American Wedding
Spin Offs:	Band Camp | The Naked Mile | Beta House
Main Characters:	Jim Levenstein | Chris Ostreicher | Paul Finch | Kevin Myers | Steve Stifler