I wanted this line to show Jim’s naïveté but also show, do the other guys know what they’re talking about either? I wrote this line “What does third base feel like?” And Chris Klein was like, “Warm apple pie, dude,” and he does this gesture. There was this line somewhere early in the first act where the kids are talking about rounding the bases of sex. Originally there was no pie - in the script or in the title.ĪDAM HERZ wasn’t in my original draft. These are edited excerpts from several conversations. The stars Jason Biggs and Eugene Levy, the writer Adam Herz, the directors Chris and Paul Weitz and the producer Chris Moore recently looked back on filming the notorious pie scene, and talked about the lasting impact of the film. And, 20 years later, the original movie still gives new meaning to pie.

Since its release, there have been three additional feature films and four direct-to-video movies in the “American Pie” franchise. Made for $11 million, “American Pie” was released on July 9, 1999, and gave Biggs his big break. That would be awkward enough - and then Jim’s father (Eugene Levy) walks in. But “American Pie” set a new standard for the genre when the world watched an apple pie become a vehicle to manhood.Ĭentered on a group of high school friends - Jim (Jason Biggs), Kevin Myers (Thomas Ian Nicholas), Chris “Oz” Ostreicher (Chris Klein) and Paul Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas) - “American Pie” followed the four on their winding and sometimes humiliating quest to losing their virginity.īut the scene that would go down in movie history is when Jim, whose friend had described the feeling of third base as “warm apple pie,” sees one such pastry sitting on his kitchen counter and decides to experiment with it. There had been other raunchy sex comedies - “Porky’s,” with its memorable, ouch-inducing locker-room scene, and “Animal House,” which showed the extremes of frat life.

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