Synopsis
American Pie, set in the year 1999, focuses on a group of four close
friends in their senior year at the fictional East Great Falls High
School in west Michigan; Kevin Myers (Thomas Ian Nicholas), Chris "Oz"
Ostreicher (Chris Klein), Jim Levenstein (Jason Biggs) and Paul Finch
(Eddie Kaye Thomas), who is better known by his surname. Kevin is
confident and charming and is dating his long-term girlfriend, Vicky
Lathum (Tara Reid); Oz is a laid-back member of the high school lacrosse
team; Jim is socially awkward and sexually naïve and suffers pressure
and questionable advice from his father (Eugene Levy); while Finch is a
cappuccino-drinking sophisticate who plays golf and wears sports
jackets. The four have very differing personalities, but share a common
characteristic; they are all virgins, in sharp contrast to popular
lacrosse player and arrogant jock Steve Stifler (Seann William Scott),
whose wild, extravagant house parties they are regularly invited to.
While
at one of Stifler's such parties, the four each attempt to score with
various girls at the party with very limited success. Oz is humiliated
by an older girl, Finch is too late for the party and Jim attempts to
talk to Czechoslovakian exchange student Nadia (Shannon Elizabeth), but
fails completely. Kevin receives fellatio from Vicky, but she overhears
him complaining about it to Jim and promptly dumps him. The next
morning, the four wake up hungover and depressed, to find ultra-nerd
Chuck "Sherminator" Sherman (Chris Owen) seeing off a pretty girl, and
are left shocked and frustrated when The Sherminator claims that he lost
his virginity to her the same night. Kevin decides to take a stand and
defiantly declares that the four will make a pact, to lose their
virginity before the school prom and graduation. Later, while eating
breakfast in a restaurant, they toast each other to 'the next step' and
formulate individual plans to achieve sexual success.
Kevin
immediately sets out to win Vicky back, but has to work very hard to
even get a chance with her, and begins to seek advice from others.
Vicky's best friend Jessica (Natasha Lyonne) reveals to Kevin that,
despite his thinking otherwise, Vicky has never felt an orgasm from
Kevin, and that he has to work on that above everything else. His older
brother Tom (Casey Affleck) then passes onto Kevin the secret of 'The
Bible' - a manual of love and sex compiled by various East Great Falls
students over several decades. Both Jessica and Tom divulge their advice
only after Kevin stresses he wants to make Vicky happy, rather than
simply taking advantage of her for his pact. Kevin finally seizes a
chance to make things up with Vicky, and performs oral sex on her in her
bedroom using his new techniques. Vicky experiences an intense orgasm
and is driven wild by Kevin, winning him the promise of sex at the prom
after-party in the process.
Meanwhile, Oz joins the school's jazz
choir in an effort to lose his stereotyped reputation as a muscleheaded
lacrosse jock and find a loving girlfriend there. He is mocked
relentlessly at first by his friends and the other choir members, but
soon wins the attention of Heather (Mena Suvari), one of the choir
singers who also suffers being stereotyped as a priss. She swiftly asks
him out to the prom with her, but changes her mind upon seeing Stifler
and his friends mocking her, and assuming Oz was doing the same. A
desperate Oz volunteers to become lead vocalist alongside Heather to try
and regain her trust. He succeeds when she catches him tirelessly
rehearsing alone in the theatre, and pays him a visit after-hours at the
sandwich bar he works at to reconcile. Their relationship is dealt
another blow when Oz realizes his last ever lacrosse game for East Great
Falls clashes with the choir competition, but a frustrated Oz decides
to abandon the game halfway-through and rushes over to the music hall,
where he makes it just in time. He performs the long-awaited duet with
Heather to rapturous applause from the audience, including Kevin and Jim
themselves.
After Oz describes third base to Jim as "like warm
apple pie", a curious Jim temporarily loses his sanity and has full
missionary sex with a freshly-baked apple pie left on the table by his
mother (giving the film its eponymous title). His father walks in on the
act and is left stunned and disappointed by his son's actions. Now
almost without hope, Jim has a stroke of luck when Nadia, seemingly at
random, asks him if she can come round to his house and study with him.
After dropping the crucial detail that she'll be coming straight from
ballet practice and will need to change, Stifler persuades Jim to set up
a webcam in his room so that they can all watch Nadia stripping
together over the internet. Upon Nadia's arrival, Jim sets up the webcam
and dashes across the street to join Kevin and Finch at Kevin's house.
Against expectation, an almost-naked Nadia discovers Jim's pornography
collection and begins to passionately masturbate on his bed, causing a
riotous reaction from Stifler, Kevin and Finch on the other end, as well
as Stifler's young brother Matt (Eli Marienthal).
Kevin and
Finch force Jim to go back and seduce her while the moment lasts, which
ends with Nadia forcing Jim to strip and dance for her while she reads
his pornography. By now, various groups of East Great Falls seniors,
including members of Blink 182, are watching the live action in excited
anticipation, as Sherman reveals that Jim accidentally addressed the
webcam link to everybody in the entire school directory. Nadia then
seduces Jim and sits him down next to her on the bed, but unfortunately,
he prematurely ejaculates, disappointing Nadia and completely grossing
out his live web audience. A desperate Jim pleads for Nadia not to go
and wins her around, but when Nadia takes her panties off, he
involuntarily ejaculates again upon touching her clitoris. Nadia swiftly
exits, leaving Jim a nervous wreck.
The next day, Jim has become
the laughing stock of the entire high school and is left despondent and
depressed, especially upon hearing that Nadia has been immediately sent
back home to Czechoslovakia by her sponsors after the incident.
However, he senses luck when unpopular band geek Michelle Flaherty
(Alyson Hannigan) randomly begins to talk to him. Upon revealing she
knows nothing about the webcam incident, he seizes the opportunity to
ask her out to the prom with him, which she gleefully accepts.
Finch
at first appears to have no plan, but Kevin's suspicions arise when
corroborative rumours begin flying around the school that Finch has
legendary sexual prowess, has had relations with older women, and that
he even knocked out Stifler in a fight. Kevin investigates and discovers
that Finch paid Jessica $200 to spread the rumours under the pretense
of truth. Finch quickly becomes the most talked-about and most
awe-inspiring senior in the whole school, with hordes of girls desperate
to go to the prom with him. However, Stifler, angry about the rumours
against him, spikes Finch's mochaccino with laxatives, and promptly
dupes him into using the girls' restroom, where Finch suffers explosive
diarrhea in the presence of several senior girls. Afterwards, he emerges
to a torrent of mockery, laughter and abuse from a hysterical crowd of
seniors, with Stifler at the helm, and is left humiliated, broken and
completely dateless.
The prom night finally comes around. Finch
is the only one of the four who attends alone, but Jessica, also alone
and feeling guilty for taking his money, offers to dance with him, even
giving him a brand new hip flask as a gift for his troubles. The prom
itself is cheap, tacky and uneventful and derided by most of the
students, but a cocky, bragging Kevin sees it as a good time to query
his friends for a "status check" on their pact. Oz and Finch are
disinterested, and a burnt-out Jim lets loose and rages at Kevin for
causing all the pressure, insisting that sex isn't at all as important
as they previously made out. The outburst shatters Kevin's bravado and
makes him wonder whether things will truly go as planned between him and
Vicky. However, their spirits are all collectively lifted, when Chuck
Sherman's partner at the prom gets up onto the stage and announces in
front of everybody that Chuck is a liar and is actually still a virgin.
Chuck wets himself in embarrassment, and the four boys excitedly catch
the bus to Stifler's huge post-prom party at his mansion on Lake
Michigan.
As the party begins to gain traction, the four boys all
individually fulfill their pact with almost no conscious effort. Kevin
and Vicky go to an upstairs bedroom where they finally have sex for the
first time, but their desires for perfection and timing cause the
interaction to become rigid and awkward throughout. While walking along
the lakeside, an emotional Oz confesses the pact to Heather, who becomes
wary, but he renounces the pact and declares that he's already won just
by being with her at the prom. They passionately embrace each other at
the dockside, naturally and fluidly moving into their first sexual
experience. Meanwhile, Jim is snoozing through Michelle's immature band
camp stories, but chokes on his drink when she reveals she knows more
about orgasms than she's letting on. Michelle leads him upstairs, where
she reveals she actually knew all along about the webcam incident, only
accepting Jim's date because he was a "sure thing". Jim finally gets to
have disaster-free sex, but Michelle is dominant and violently
aggressive, shouting abuse at Jim, roughing him up and smashing things
up with her hands and feet out of sheer passion. Finally, a bored Finch
wanders around restricted areas of the house and bumps into Stifler's
mom (Jennifer Coolidge), whose aura and natural beauty takes him aback.
After some sophisticated, upper-class conversation and flirting, she
becomes aroused by Finch's precociousness, and they proceed to make love
on the snooker table as the party goes on through the night.
Dawn
breaks early the next morning over Stifler's mansion, which is littered
with sleeping seniors. Oz watches the sun rise with a smile as Heather
snuggles into his lap at the lakeside, the couple looking extremely
content. Kevin and Vicky are also awake, but both are contemplative and
neither seem happy. Vicky amicably breaks up with Kevin, citing their
separation due to their choice of university and the physical distance
it causes, a topic she discussed earlier with Jessica. Kevin is left
saddened, but accepts Vicky's reasoning. Meanwhile, Jim wakes up and
goes to cuddle Michelle in bed, only to find himself hugging an
inflatable toy shark with no Michelle in sight. He quickly realizes
Michelle used and abused him for a sordid one night stand, but is left
brimming with happiness at how cool the prospect of being used is.
Finally, Finch is asleep with Stifler's mom when a hungover Stifler
enters the room; he is so shocked at the sight that he collapses and
passes out.
Later on, Kevin, Oz, Jim and Finch all go to their
favorite hang-out restaurant, the fittingly-named "Dog Years", for
breakfast. Far from celebrating their pact with stories, they all remain
very conservative and hushed about their experiences the night before,
with Oz gleefully refusing to even confirm whether he had sex or not.
Regardless, the four lads are now collectively happier than they ever
were before, and once again toast each other to 'the next step' as they
prepare to leave high school and move away to university.
The
film ends with Jim setting up his webcam in his room once again, and
stripping and dancing to country music. Nadia is on the other end, back
in her home country, smiling and laughing at Jim. His father walks in on
the act, but sees the funny side. He walks out and starts dancing down
the corridor, presumably to make love to his wife, as he seductively
mutters "sweetheart!".
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