
The script - written and sold by first-time screenwriter Adam Herz within six weeks - dropped onto the desks of studio bosses with the title, "Unfinished Teenage Sex Comedy Which Can Be Made for Under $10 Million That Studio Readers Will Most Likely Hate but I Think You Will Love”.

With this in mind, why not pay it the ultimate respect and learn of 15 lesser known American Pie facts? “There's something about your first piece,” quipped American Pie's tagline, 22 years and seven mostly forgettable sequels later, how right it was.īecause for those of a certain age, the film continues to stand as a seminal, hormonally-charged classic, a Porky’s of the nineties, and a raucous comedy worth revisiting time after time. American Pie is also a whopping 22 years old now, which means that it's perfect time to revisit the movie and offer up some facts you may not know about the film. The movie isn't so much a sex comedy but a comedy about sex, or lack of it - and it's hilarious. American Pie is a film very much of its time.
