Tagline: No actual Europeans were harmed in the making of this film.
Eurotrip movie storyline. Have you ever pressed “Send” on an email and immediately wished you could get it back’ Scotty Thomas (Scott Mechlowicz) and his Berlin-based computer pen pal Mieke (Jessica Boehrs) have been writing each other for years, sharing every detail of their lives. When Mieke makes a cyber pass at Scotty, he completely freaks out, thinking that this guy he’s known for years is coming on to him… in German no less. Too bad the the one detail Scotty doesn’t seem to know is that, in Germany, Mieke is a girl’s name…
By the time Scotty figures out that Mieke is a girl, and a hot one at that, Mieke has cut off her email account and all contact with him. Thinking that this might be his one chance at true love — even though he’s never actually met the girl — Scotty and his best friends, Cooper (Jacob Pitts) and the twins Jenny (Michelle Trachtenberg) and Jamie (Travis Wester), embark on a raucous trip across Europe headed for Berlin.
Their trek takes them from London to Paris to Amsterdam and Eastern Europe, exposing them — literally — to every lascivious, larcenous and lecherous indulgence Europe has to offer, in a comedy that gives new meaning to the phrase “foreign relations.”
From The Montecito Picture Company, “Eurotrip” was directed by first-timer Jeff Schaffer from a screenplay that he co-wrote with his longtime writing partners Alec Berg and David Mandel. The trio most recently adapted Dr. Seuss’ “The Cat in the Hat.” Daniel Goldberg, Jackie Marcus, Alec Berg and David Mandel are producing the film, with Ivan Reitman, Tom Pollock and Joe Medjuck serving as executive producers.
The film was released in the United States and Canada on February 20, 2004, in 2,512 theaters. Over its opening weekend, the film grossed $6.7 million. It went on to gross $17.8 million in the United States and Canada and $3 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $20.8 million.
Writers Mandel, Berg, and Schaffer all directed while only Schaffer could achieve director credit, according to the DVD filmmaker commentary. Also according to the commentary track, all scenes were filmed in Prague, the Czech Republic, especially in the streets close to the Rudolfinum. The opening scene set in the United States was filmed at the International School of Prague.
The scene where the main characters are boarding at the Paris railway station was filmed in Prague’s main railway station (Hlavní nádraží). The scene inside Vatican City was actually filmed in Prague’s National Museum. The scenes with a German lorry driver were taken at unfinished D5 motorway near Pilsen.
Eurotrip (2004)
Directed by: Jeff Schaffer, Alec Berg, Dave Mandel
Starring: Michelle Trachtenberg, Scott Mechlowicz, Jacob Pitts, Lucy Lawless, Jessica Boehrs, Travis Wester, Kristin Kreuk, Vinnie Jones, Joanna Lumley, Jana Pallaske
Screenplay by: Alec Berg
Production Design by: Allan Starski
Cinematography by: David Eggby
Film Editing by: Roger Bondelli
Costume Design by: Julia Caston, Vanessa Vogel
Set Decoration by; William A. Cimino, Jiri Macke
Art Direction by; David Baxa, Jindrich Kocí, Nenad Pecur
Music by: James L. Venable
MPAA Rating: R for sexuality, nudity. drug/alcohol content.
Distributed by: DreamWorks Pictures
Release Date: February 20, 2004
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