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While on a date in a fancy restaurant with Michelle, Jim is ready to propose to her. His father calls to inform him that he has the ring. Michelle misinterprets when Jim stalls the question. Jim’s dad arrives as Jim is receiving fellatio, and a mishap grasps the restaurant’s attention. Jim proposes and Michelle accepts.
Jim wants to exclude Stifler from the wedding, having concerns that Stifler’s behavior isn’t socially acceptable. When Jim is worried about learning the dance, Stifler agrees to teach Jim to dance, and over time to tone down his obnoxious personality, in exchange that he be allowed to attend the wedding and host a bachelor party. The boys go on a road trip when they discover there is only one designer who makes the dress that Michelle wants.
They go to Chicago looking for “Leslie Sommers”; Stifler unwittingly walks into a gay bar, and his raucous behavior gets him into a dispute with several patrons. Stifler challenges Bear to a dance-off, wins, and Bear offers to provide strippers for the bachelor party. Leslie reveals “him”self and agrees to make the dress for Michelle. Michelle’s parents, who were initially skeptical of Jim, agree to have a preliminary dinner with him.
American Wedding (known as American Pie 3: The Wedding or American Pie: The Wedding, in some countries) is a 2003 American romantic comedy film and a sequel to American Pie and American Pie 2. It is the third (originally intended final) installment in the American Pie theatrical series. It was written by Adam Herz and directed by Jesse Dylan. Another sequel, American Reunion, was released nine years later. This also stands as the last film in the series to be written by Herz, who conceptualized the franchise.
About the Story
The film begins with Jim Levenstein (Jason Biggs) and Michelle Flaherty (Alyson Hannigan) having dinner, celebrating their college graduation. They’ve been dating for 3 years now. Jim intends to propose to Michelle, but receives a phone call from his dad saying that Jim forgot the engagement ring at home and his dad is on his way to bring it to him. As Jim tries to stall, he talks about the next step which Michelle interprets as spicing up their sex lives.
She gets the impression that he wants a public sex act and proceeds to perform oral sex on him under the table. When Mr. Levenstein (Eugene Levy) arrives, Jim tries to hide the fact that he’s being fellated. Not knowing Michelle is under the table, Jim’s dad expresses his excitement at the proposal. Then, after Michelle bumps her head under the table out of shock , 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 which she readily agrees.
Jim has a night at the local bar with Michelle, Kevin(Thomas Ian Nicholas) and Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas) to celebrate their engagement. During that night, it is revealed that Michelle likes to dance but Jim is a terrible dancer. The first thing about the wedding that everyone agrees to, is that Stifler (Seann William Scott) is not invited and should be kept away from the wedding.
This proves to be impossible when Stifler drives by Jim’s house and decides to crash what he thinks is a graduation party but is actually the engagement party. He messes with the cake which ends up on his lap and Jim’s as well. Jim tries to take his pants off to clean them and chaos ensues ending with Jim looking like he’s having sex with dogs when Michelle’s parents (Fred Willard and Deborah Rush) meet him for the first time.
When Stifler realizes that Jim is getting married, he volunteers to organize the bachelor party which Kevin and Finch hadn’t thought about but agrees that Stifler would be the perfect guy for such an occasion. They don’t tell him however that he is not invited.
Afterward, Jim worries that the wedding will be a disaster. Michelle’s parents hate him after the dog incident. Michelle is stressed but doesn’t want to tell Jim about her worries so Jim doesn’t know what she really wants and he knows she’ll want to dance and he’s really bad at it. He shares these details to Kevin and Finch who offers their help.
Looking for dancing lessons, Kevin and Finch meets Stifler and try to hint that he’s not invited at the wedding. Jim goes to Stifler to try to explain why he’s not invited. Stifler gets angry and screams at Jim while his football team surrounds them and scream with him. Stifler uses that moment to whisper that he knows how to dance and he can teach Jim. They have a first lesson together and Jim finally agrees to invite Stifler and allow him to take care of the bachelor party.
Meanwhile, Finch has been following Michelle under disguise to learn more about her desires for the wedding. He finds out that Michelle’s dream wedding dress is made by only one designer working for one store in Chicago. So Jim sets out to find the dress maker with the guys and Stifler. They go to Chicago but the dress maker named Leslie isn’t at the store.
One of her colleagues agrees to give them the address of a few bars where they could find her. They split to cover more territory and Stifler ends up in a gay bar where he gets in an argument with a big man nicknamed Bear who happens to know Leslie. Bear sends them away refusing to help them. As Jim is losing faith in ever finding Leslie, Stifler returns and has a dance-off to make up for his rudeness towards Bear. Leslie, the man who was next to Bear all along finally reveals himself and agrees to make the dress.
Michelle’s sister Cadence (January Jones) arrives to help for the preparations, 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. The act works as it seduces both Cadence and her mother. When Finch realizes that Cadence is beginning to tire of the intellectual Stifler however, he starts to act immature, rude, and perverted: in other words, like the real Stifler. This change of attitude momentarily gets him the attention and favor of Cadence.
American Wedding (2003)
Directed by: Jesse Dylan
Starring: Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Seann William Scott, January Jones, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Eugene Levy, Molly Cheek, Deborah Rush, Fred Willard
Screenplay by: Adam Hertz
Production Design by: Clayton Hartley
Cinematography by: Lloyd Ahern
Film Editing by: Stuart H. Pappé
Costume Design by: Pamela Withers
Set Decoration by: Brana Rosenfeld
Art Direction by: Gregory A. Weimerskirch
Music by: Christophe Beck
MPAA Rating: R for sexual content, language and crude humor.
Studio: Universal Pictures
Release Date: August 1, 2003
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