I LOVE YOU BETH COOPER

Buffalo Grove High School valedictorian Denis Cooverman (PAUL RUST) has

had quite an academic career…on paper, at least. Superlative student, conscientious

young gentleman and patently obvious dork, Denis has played it safe and made it all the

way to graduation day without ever having really experienced some of the joys of higher

learning: breaking curfew, destruction of property, over-consumption of alcohol, fist

fights, late nights, fast cars or faster women (actually, women of any sort).

But all of that is about to change, and all by uttering five little words: “I LOVE

YOU, BETH COOPER.”

Seems that Denis has been harboring a secret for six years, a chronic case of

l’amour fou for Beth (HAYDEN PANETTIERE), one of the most popular girls in school,

who sat in the desk just in front of him in multiple classes (God bless alphabetical

order!). And thanks to his colorful best friend, Rich (JACK T. CARPENTER), Denis has

been goaded into telling the truth and declaring his love during his valedictory address –

while also putting names to several other white elephants stampeding through the senior

class.

His resulting embarrassment is short-lived, however, when The Trinity – Beth

and her two best friends, super-bitchy Cammy (LAUREN LONDON) and super-easy

Treece (LAUREN STORM) – shows up to his and Rich’s ad hoc graduation night party.

Unfortunately for Denis, Beth’s thick-necked, military hopeful boyfriend, Kevin

(SHAWN ROBERTS), also shows up, with two equally menacing, double-digit IQ

friends in tow. When the inevitable can of “you insulted my woman!” whoop-ass is

opened, Beth comes to the rescue, and whisks Denis, Rich, Cammy and Treece away in

her beat-up Cabriolet.

As the chase continues from sunset to sun up, Denis realizes that his little speech

has given rise to one of the wildest, most eventful, most hilarious and most revealing

nights of his life.

The Love Story Begins

Writer/producer/director Chris Columbus has always been a funny guy…funny,

combined with a little sense of the bizarre thrown in, but funny nonetheless. Case in

point: the megahit Gremlins, one of Columbus’ first screenplays, about a cute little furry

creature that is accidentally hit with a little water and, before its cute little owner knows

it, their cute little town is on the verge of destruction from a horde of small, not-so-cute,

murderous monsters.

A few years later, Columbus helmed Heartbreak Hotel, his homage to Elvis, and

worked with a young assistant director named Mark Radcliffe. They next collaborated on

the global hit film Home Alone – accidentally left behind, a cute little kid defends his

home from two would-be burglars – with Radcliffe as first assistant director/associate

producer. Along the way, the two found they shared some of the same sensibilities when

it came to filmmaking – funny, offbeat, creative – and began to collaborate on other

projects. The romantic comedy Nine Months brought aboard producer Michael

Barnathan, to Columbus’ writing/producing/directing and Radcliffe’s producing. Around

that time, the three joined to form the company 1492 Pictures.

Many films later, from comedies to dramas to the screen adaptations of three of

the most popular and widely read books in the world, Columbus found that he wanted to

return to the director’s chair and began searching for his next project. When Barnathan

noted, “You know, Chris, it’s a long time since you’ve been funny,” he realized that it

had been a long time, indeed. Serendipitously, it was about that time that the first 100

pages of an as-yet-unpublished novel found its way to the offices of 1492 Pictures. Its

title was I Love You, Beth Cooper. It was funny and offbeat, with a decidedly bizarre tilt

to the story of a lovelorn dork named Denis and the object of his affection, Beth – with a

motley entourage in tow – spending graduation night fleeing together from Beth’s

vengeful boyfriend. It was love at first read.

Michael Barnathan observes, “The story of I Love You, Beth Cooper has real

emotion and heart, which we’ve always responded to.” Mark Radcliffe says, “One of

Chris’ strengths as a director has always been his ability to fuse comedy and emotion, and

Beth Cooper has plenty of both.”

The author of the novel was Larry Doyle, whose ability to conjure the universal

themes and pitfalls of the last days of high school belies his distance from the actual

experience. The acutely observed and laugh-out-loud work was, according to Doyle,

written as if he were in high school at the time (in the appropriate decade), and then the

tale was embellished with the trappings of a post-millennial high school world. “The

basic issues of being a teenager, figuring out who you are, where you fit, haven’t

changed,” he says. “Out of the box, the characters look as if they’re going to act and

behave in a certain way, but by the end of the movie, none of them is who you think they

are.”

Two days after he began shopping the manuscript (as a 100-page sample), it had

quickly reached the desks of some of Hollywood’s leading producers, where it was

snatched up by the 1492 team.

For Doyle, it was a dream, literally: “The story came to me in a dream, where I

imagined that I was giving my high school speech and, in it, I declared my love for this

girl that I had a crush on in seventh grade.”

Columbus was drawn to the project because of the universality of the characters’

experiences, and because it’s essentially a love story. He states, “Being a high school kid

and dealing with those intense emotions – feeling love for the first time, questioning your

identity, whether it’s your future or your sexual identity – for me is fascinating. We

never have a more emotionally turbulent moment in our lives than our junior or senior

year in high school. It just doesn’t get any more intense in terms of what we’re feeling

about ourselves.”

For Columbus, heading I Love You, Beth Cooper harkened back to his

development, casting and directing of the first Harry Potter film; it was a chance to work

with and nurture a group of fresh young actors. Columbus explains, “When they’re just

starting out, actors have a sense of excitement and hunger and an eagerness to be in the

movie. That kind of energy fuels the production. There are no star turns. Everyone is

there to work. You can never recapture your own youth, but you can certainly tap into

that creative energy that fuelled you 15 or 20 years ago. That was what I was hoping to

do with this movie.”

In describing Beth Cooper, Columbus says, “The film is about two people whose

lives cross at a time when they’re about to make an enormous leap forward. Denis’ leap

forward is toward a future that’s extremely bright and filled with the potential for

success. Beth’s future is not so certain. In a way, she may have reached her pinnacle in

high school. I found that to be an interesting moment, when these two come together.”

Lucky for the director, the perfect Beth Cooper – Hayden Panettiere, from the hit

television series Heroes – had already expressed interest in the project. Her first meeting

with Columbus made an immediate and happily positive impression on him: as soon as

Panettiere entered the room, Chris turned to Michael Barnathan and said, “She’s a big

movie star.”

What drew Panettiere to the film was the layered character of Beth, which

afforded her the opportunity to turn her Heroes cheerleader/superhero image on its head:

“Beth’s character goes through a definite change. In the beginning, you don’t know her,

but you don’t like her, either. She’s the popular girl. She comes off a bit rough around

the edges, but as you get to know her, you realize that it’s because she thinks the rest of

her life, after high school, is going to be completely ordinary. She isn’t really good at

anything. She doesn’t have a talent. She’s not particularly smart and she isn’t good in

school. She isn’t going to get into a good college, and she can’t even afford to go to a

community college…so high school is her world. That is where she thrives, and that’s all

she knows.”

Columbus thought she was perfect for the role: “I knew she was a very gifted

dramatic actress, but I had no idea she was so unbelievably talented in terms of comedy.

She brings an incredible sense of comic timing.”

Panettiere explains the supposed disconnect between the story being told in I Love

You, Beth Cooper and the way in which it’s told: “Every time I describe the plotline in

the movie and how the characters come together for this journey, it always sounds a bit

like a drama, even though it’s a very funny comedy. To me, that shows that it’s a

comedy that really has a heart behind it. We’re basically running through the entire

movie the whole night to get away from my psychotic boyfriend, who’s intent on

destroying Denis because of what he said. But so much happens – we drive crazy, we

drink a little, we end up in the woods, and then at this fancy graduation party, then a

cabin on the lake – it’s really so funny. At one point, I drive a Hummer through the front

of a house! And it all ends with cops. So that’s not such a drama, is it?”

To find the actor to portray Denis Cooverman, an extensive casting search was

launched in Los Angeles, New York and Vancouver. The filmmakers found their Denis

– Paul Rust – at an evening of improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. Rust had

moved from Iowa to Los Angeles with the goal of becoming a creator of comedy; at the

most, he had hoped for a shot at being “the funny guy” in the ensemble. Landing a lead

in a major motion picture was beyond his dreams.

“Paul is a both a very gifted verbal comedian and an incredibly gifted physical

comedian, plus he’s an amazing actor,” says Columbus. “He’s naturalistic, honest and

quite moving in his performance. Once you get to know Paul, you realize there’s so

much depth and so much complexity within him, and he brings that to the Denis. I met a

lot of actors who were very talented in a comedic way, but they didn’t have that soul. I

love that combination. Paul is not the type of person you’d expect to get the girl at the

end of the movie. He’s not the person you’d expect to be successful with women, yet

Woody Allen was able to pull it off all those years, as did Chaplin, Groucho Marx, and

now, Seth Rogen. Paul embodies that kind of persona.”

“Denis is the sort of guy that was in everybody’s class,” observes Paul Rust.

“He’s a dorky guy, who’s maybe a little shy and scared to live life. Then, one day, for

some reason, he decides not to be shy and be completely open. He tells everybody that

he loves Beth Cooper, and they’ve never even spoken, by the way. And when he opens

up, so does his life.”

Panettiere think Rust hits the nail on the head regarding his character, and takes

the point even further when she says, “Denis Cooverman has a way of bringing out the

truth in people. Throughout the movie, people become more honest because of him.”

“I think before you come of age you view things in very black-and-white terms,”

counters Rust, “but as you get older, you realize it’s a little more complicated. Denis gets

his eyes opened to the world. On an emotional level, Denis learns that being scared and

being fearful of new experiences can keep you from having a more satisfying life. As far

as Beth’s character is concerned, I think Denis gets her to see herself as a more worthy

person than she was giving herself credit for.”

If Beth is at the top of the social ladder at Buffalo Grove High, Denis and his

sidekick, Rich, are near the bottom, probably just above the guys steadying the ladder.

Larry Doyle says, “Denis and Rich, socially speaking, are just slightly above people in

band in the hierarchy. And I think they’re just below the Mathletes.”

Cast in the part of the flashy Rich is Jack T. Carpenter, who shares his own take

on the place he and Denis occupy in the scheme of all things high school: “The

characters Paul and I play are not the complete losers. It’s just that we don’t quite fit in.

It’s where I was in high school and that’s something that I definitely connect to.”

Rich is one of those great character combinations, then, of verbal acuity, physical

comedy and a deep soul…think The Fool in several of Shakespeare’s plays. And who

wouldn’t want to portray that?

Carpenter continues, “The thing I like most about Rich is that underneath all of

his shtick and his movie quotes, there’s a real sincerity to the guy; he’s a real human

being who’s had a really hard background. And he’s trying to get through it. He’s got

these brand new shoes that he had to buy himself, because his father wouldn’t get them

for him; it’s oddly symbolic, because he’s just trying to dance his way through life

without concentrating too much on the bad stuff. Rich convinces Denis to tell Beth he

loves her, because in the movie-influenced world of Rich, people who do that fall in love.

And even though things don’t go that way, he just doesn’t concentrate on it. He goes

with the flow, onto the next piece of bad advice he will give Denis.”

So if Rich is the one in Denis’ corner, in Beth’s, it’s the seemingly mismatched

Cammy and Treece. Per the actresses portraying the pair – “The Laurens,” as they were

called during production, Lauren London and Lauren Storm, respectively – the girls are

Beth’s best friends because of their nonjudgmental attitude toward her.

Lauren London’s reaction to the script echoed the filmmakers’: “When I first

read the script, I thought it was hilarious, and I had to be a part of it. I wanted to be

Cammy, not just because she’s dry and bitchy, although that is fun, but because you can’t

hate her. She’s likeable because she’s telling the truth. Most people have social filters,

but Cammy doesn’t. She says what she thinks without thinking. It’s funny and dry, and

it has a sting. But it stays funny because, inside, you know she’s a good person.”

Lauren Storm comments, “I think Cammy is dealing with a lot at home, and

sometimes, the meanest people are the ones who hurt the most. I approached Treece as

just that dumb girl – no judgment, I think it’s genetic – who thinks physical affection

equals love. I guess you’d say she’s easy. I didn’t really want to think of her as a

traditional ‘dumb blonde’ role, because when you do that, you’re judging the character

before you play it. She may be dumb, but she’s perpetually naïve and happy, so I had to

totally change my thinking.” (Storm’s thinking wasn’t the only thing that changed in

order to play Treece—she gained nearly 15 pounds to screen test for the role, and

eventually added another 15 pounds on top of that to give her the curves of Doyle’s

character.)

It seems that everyone either had or found a personal connection to the characters

they played, including the “heavy” of the piece, Shawn Roberts, who was cast as the

possessive and excessively macho Kevin, Beth’s boyfriend. While Roberts never

experienced the kind of bullying that Kevin enacts, he did at least have a glancing

knowledge of the experience. Roberts relates, “I wasn’t ever really bullied, not so much.

I mean, I had two older brothers, if that counts. And being older brothers, it’s kind of

their job to do a little of that stuff. But, no, I’ve never had to experience the bullying

thing, thank goodness, because I have seen how painful and destructive that kind of thing

can be.”

Prior to the start of principal photography, the cast spent two weeks in Vancouver,

rehearsing and getting to know each other. “We’re a bunch of extremely different

individuals,” says Carpenter. “I don’t know if socially we would hang out in any other

situation, but because we did, there was a really interesting, unique bond…sort of like in

the movie.”

Columbus also employed the technique of having the actors prepare and write

backstories for their characters. The finished pieces were read to the entire cast,

establishing an even more familiar bond between their onscreen personas. And some

even found that they had experiences in common with their characters. “When I first

read the script,” says Rust, “I thought, ‘That’s funny, I made the same mistake when I

was graduating, too!’ I was valedictorian of my class and when I gave my address, I used

it as an opportunity to essentially give a kiss-off. I’d heard so many speeches where

people had said that these were the best years of their lives. My speech asked, are they

really? I listed all the awful things about high school, like break-ups and acne and

teenage pregnancy. I was being a smartass and later, I was incredibly embarrassed and

regretted everything I said.”

Characterizations weren’t the only things that came out of the rehearsal period.

Despite its sweet title, I Love You, Beth Cooper calls for some serious fighting – mostly

Kevin and his crew pounding on poor Denis. And the lead pounder, Shawn Roberts, had

to work with veteran film fight choreographer, Bob Brown, along with co-star Rust and

all of the stunt doubles, to ensure the ultimate safety during filming of the tussles.

Rust felt that his progression through the movie, as he withstands an ever-

increasing number of run-ins with Kevin and crew, warranted his performing as many of

his own stunts as Columbus would allow. Roberts says, “Paul’s been such a trooper with

us. There’s one fight, in the locker room, where I’m stomping down and missing his

groin by inches. I wouldn’t trust a lot of people, doing that. But Paul and I worked with

Bobby, and no worries. Paul’s doing a lot of the stunts himself really helped the rest of

the actors, because we work with him in a scene and establish a flow, as opposed to

stopping and switching in the stunt guy. Don’t get me wrong – the stunt people are

amazing, incredible and talented people. But they can’t deliver the lines with the zest

that Paul brings. And that makes all of the other cast members take their game to the

next level. I think it plays well, in the end, and it certainly makes the editor’s job a littler

easier.”

Rust knew he could take the risks he did because of the close working relationship

formed with his director. Rust comments, “Chris and I definitely collaborated on the

character. I would have an idea about how I wanted to do something, and then I’d take it

to Chris, and he’d give his two cents, and he made it better. When you take something to

him, he doesn’t say, ‘Bad idea.’ Instead, it’s ‘Oh, I like that idea, and here’s something

else we can do with it.’ Then he makes your idea better. I think that’s what a good

director does; he helps you pinpoint what you’re trying to do and then give you a garden

to grow in. Ha, yeah, I’m standing by that image: I’m not backing down. It’s a garden to

grow in!”

I Love You, Beth Cooper filmed for nine-and-a-half weeks in Vancouver, British

Columbia. The biggest challenge facing production: Filming a summer movie during

springtime in the Northwest. And they encountered plenty of surprises, courtesy of

Mother Nature, including a heavy snowfall. The book’s setting of a suburb near Chicago

was shifted to Tacoma, Washington. This would not only allow for a little leeway in the

weather, it also provided the opportunity to shoot on and around beautiful Lake Alouette,

a glacial lake amid forested mountains an hour-and-a-half outside of Vancouver.

The filmmakers couldn’t find one high school that provided all of the settings

they needed, so four schools were amalgamated (with film magic) to become the story’s

Buffalo Glenn High School. Since Valli’s house, the scene of the disastrous party, is

described in detail in the book, production designer Howard Cummings found just the

right house just outside of Vancouver, which received a false bay window addition

(which was duplicated on the interior set). This would allow the avenging Beth an ideal

place into which she could crash Kevin’s Hummer. To contrast, an elegantly designed

Craftsman bungalow was chosen to stand in for the Cooverman house.

The Hummer crash took around seven weeks to prep and execute, and was the

single largest stunt in the film. The interior version of the bay window was constructed

out of balsa wood and candy glass, to lower the chances of injury from flying, heavy

debris. Additionally, the enormous vehicle collides with a buffet table full of food and

dishware. When time came for the shot, all of the actual plates and silverware were

switched out for plastic or acrylic, to lessen their harmful ‘missile’ potential. The

sequence was filmed with five cameras.

Cummings declares, “It was a very exciting sequence for us with a lot of prep; it

crosses a lot of different departments because it involves stunt people, special effects,

along with the set decorating and lighting and others. All of this work was because of the

complicated nature of trying to make something smash and fly through the air. It took a

lot of coordination, and we wound up getting people’s opinions about how to do it

different ways. And, of course, we needed to make it as safe as possible.”

The sometime comic nature of high school, plus the time spent trying to mature to

graduate to the next stage of life, was a universal theme that struck a chord with all

involved in making I Love You, Beth Cooper. For Hayden Panettiere, it brought to the

surface fond memories of other motion pictures she grew up watching. She hopes,

“Someday, maybe lines from this film will be quoted, like some from the John Hughes

movies of the ‘80s. That’d be wonderful. Then you’d say, ‘Yeah, it’s from that old film

I Love You, Beth Cooper, oh, I loved that film!’ One day, I’ll be old and gray and think,

‘Oh, I remember doing that film.’”

For Paul Rust, it was the opportunity to come to see someone in another, perhaps

better, light that will stay with him: “Beth is somebody who Denis thought was like an

angel. Then, after spending the evening with her, he sees that she is somebody who

swears and drinks and makes offers to get beer. That’s an awakening, a way of opening

yourself up. Like, ‘Oh, it wasn’t as simple as I thought.’ And I think that’s how Denis

grows up.”

Larry Doyle wrote a novel and screenplay in which everybody, he believes, can

recognize something of themselves: “This is the same story as it would have been when I

was in high school. I knew that people my age – ancient people like myself, when they

read the large print edition – would be able to empathize with it. But what was truly

amazing to me is that teenagers ended up writing to me from all over the place, not

because of some great insight I have into the way teenagers are today, but in the fact that

being a teenager hasn’t changed. The basic stuff that everyone thinks about, and gets all

worried about, like drugs or sex, those do change, or at least, the headlines about them

change. But the basic issues, like figuring out who you are and where you fit, all

teenagers have that exact same problem, no matter when they were teenagers. People

would ask, ‘How did you know what it’s like to be a teenager?’ And all I said was,

‘Because I was one.’”

ABOUT THE CAST

HAYDEN PANETTIERE (Beth Cooper) has an impressive resume of feature

film, television, animation and commercial credits that have made her name synonymous

with a rising star.

Currently starring in the popular NBC Television drama Heroes, Hayden has been

cast in the unique and challenging role as a high school cheerleader who is literally

indestructible. The NBC series is a critical and audience hit and was been nominated for

a 2007 Emmy® Award by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in the

Outstanding Drama Series category. The series also received a Golden Globe®

nomination from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in 2007.

Also in 2007, Hayden herself was honored with the Capri Hollywood Film

Festival’s Breakout Actress Award, as well as the 1st Annual Wave Award as Favorite

Clipped Dramatic Artist for the Television Season. She also has received the Genesis

Wyler Award from The Humane Society of the United States for her impassioned efforts

in raising awareness of animal welfare worldwide. In July, 2008 she was named Choice

Female Actress in a Television Drama Series by the wildly popular Teen Choice Awards.

Hayden’s film credits are impressive. She co-starred in Fireflies in the Garden,

opposite Julia Roberts, Willem Dafoe and Emily Watson for Senator International, which

debuted at the 2008 Berlin Film Festival. The story, directed by Dennis Lee, explores the

complexities of love and commitment in a family torn apart when faced with an

unexpected tragedy. She also starred in the independent feature The Architect, opposite

Anthony LaPaglia and Isabella Rossellini, and The Good Student for Kevin Spacey’s

company, Triggerstreet, co-starring Bill Sadler and Tim Daly. She co-starred in the

romantic dramedy Shanghai Kiss, and she starred as the lead in Bring It On: All or

Nothing, the sequel to the box office hit Bring It On, for Universal Home Video.

Hayden dazzled everyone in her role as a competitive ice skater in Ice Princess.

In order to bring authenticity to her role for the film, she trained rigorously and executed

all of her own stunts. In addition, she recorded the ballad “I Fly” for the film’s

soundtrack and closing credits. She co-starred in the Lifetime Original movie Lies My

Mother Told Me, based on a compelling true story, opposite Joely Richardson, and she

embodied the challenging leading role as a jockey in Warner Bros.’ Racing Stripes,

opposite the voices of Dustin Hoffman and Whoopi Goldberg.

Hayden had a lead role in the feature film comedy Raising Helen, directed by

Garry Marshall. Additionally, she starred in Tiger Cruise, a dramatic story based on the

true events of September 11th, which debuted to rave reviews on The Disney Channel.

Hayden’s film, Normal, opposite Jessica Lange and Tom Wilkinson, and directed

by Jane Anderson for HBO, premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. Her spitfire

characters in both Joe Somebody (as Tim Allen’s daughter) and Remember the Titans (in

which she co-starred with Denzel Washington) helped to establish her as a unique talent.

Her portrayal of a young Jeanne, played by Hilary Swank, in The Affair of the Necklace,

is a cameo performance of depth beyond her years.

Hayden’s other film credits include Message in a Bottle with Kevin Costner and

The Object of My Affection with Jennifer Aniston. Her television appearances have won

her numerous nominations and awards.

Hayden’s voice is as recognizable as her face. She starred in the delightful

animated feature, A Bug’s Life, as Princess Dot, and as Suri in Disney’s Dinosaurs. Her

work for A Bug’s Life Read-A-Long garnered her a Grammy® nomination for Best

Spoken Word Album, as well as a nomination for The Hollywood Reporter’s Young Star

Award for Best Young Voiceover Talent.

Hayden is a Fresh Face for Neutrogena and has participated in popular campaigns

for Candie’s and Dooney & Burke, the latter for which she designed several exclusive

handbags.

She is a spokesperson for The Whaleman Foundation and Save the Whales Again!

Campaign. The Foundation is an oceanic non-profit conservation, research and

production organization dedicated to preserving and protecting dolphins, whales and our

oceans.

PAUL RUST (Denis Cooverman) is a writer, performer, improver and

videographer who can pretty much do it all. And if he can’t, he can probably fake it.

Rust’s first major feature film role was opposite Will Ferrell in the sports comedy

Semi-Pro. Prior to that, he appeared in the experimental comedy, Exquisite Corpse, for

which 15 writers created a scene apiece, which were then played in random order at each

screening. He also had a role in writer/director Adam Deyoe’s indie fest comedy Psycho

Sleepover.

Upcoming for Paul is the new film from Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds,

in which he performs alongside an international ensemble cast, including Brad Pitt and

Samuel L. Jackson. The film follows a special group of guerrilla soldiers parachuted into

Nazi-occupied France, who aim to spread fear among Hitler’s troops by single-handedly

killing as many German soldiers as they can.

Paul first began writing and performing comedy in his home state at the

University of Iowa. Upon moving to Los Angeles, he quickly began catching attention as

a regular performer at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, performing sketch, improv

and stand-up comedy. His stage work (along with partner, Neil Campbell) was featured

at HBO’s The Comedy Festival in Las Vegas, as well as San Francisco Sketchfest.

His writing credits include Adult Swim’s Moral Orel, MTV’s Human Giant and

the Fox pilot The Right Now Show, which also featured Paul as a lead performer. Paul’s

self-made videos have gained a growing following on the Internet and can be viewed at

funnyordie.com/paulrust/videos.

JACK T. CARPENTER (Rich) made his film debut in the teen comedy Sydney

White, a modern-day version of the classic Snow White, with Amanda Bynes. Next up,

he will show his range of acting in the drama Harvest, an independent film written and

directed by Marc Meyers. The film centers around three generations of a family coming

together one summer, and around the eventual passing of the patriarch of the family, a

WWII veteran. Carpenter stars opposite Robert Loggia and Barbara Barrie.

In 2006, just months out of Carnegie Mellon’s School of Drama, Carpenter

nabbed the lead role of Adam Lipshitz opposite Leslie Nielson in the NBC Television

pilot Lipshitz Saves the World, which unfortunately never aired. However, he later went

on to a recurring role in the Fox comedy The Return of Jezebel James, opposite Lauren

Ambrose and Parker Posie.

Carpenter, a classically trained actor who is also a writer, lives in New York and

continues to pursue his first love, the theatre. In 2006, he starred in the off-Broadway

production of The Night That Roger Went to Visit the Parents of His Old High School

Girlfriend, directed by Andrew McCarthy.

LAUREN LONDON (Cammy) made her feature film debut opposite rapper T.I.

in ATL, directed by Chris Robinson, and next appeared in the all-star cast of Sony Screen

Gems’ This Christmas, alongside Idris Elba, Loretta Devine, Delroy Lindo, Columbus

Short and Chris Brown.

Recently, Lauren played the hot new cheerleader, Christina, on the cutting-edge

resurrection of TV’s 90210, and also appeared in Benny Boom’s feature film, Next Day

Air.

Lauren, a Los Angeles native, also has starred on the critically-acclaimed HBO

Original Series Entourage as the romantic interest of the character Turtle (played by Jerry

Ferrara), and impressed the fashion world as a spokesmodel for the Sean Jean women’s

line.

LAUREN STORM (Treece), at the young age of 14, landed a two-episode arc of

the hit series Boston Legal, and things quickly developed from there. Up next was a

scene-stealing recurring role on the show Malcolm in the Middle, along with a very

different and dramatic turn on the popular and critical success 24, starring Kiefer

Sutherland. Lauren followed that with a string of memorable guest-starring roles on

some of the most-watched series on the air: Joan of Arcadia, CSI: Miami and 7th

Heaven.

She also had a supporting role opposite Annette Bening and Ben Kingsley in the

multiple Emmy-nominated movie for HBO, Mrs. Harris. She then got cast as a series

regular on the long-running NBC/Discovery Kids series Flight 29 Down.

Her feature film credits include big budget films, as well as grittier, independent

fare, most notably as Nanny Cindy to Dwayne Johnson’s daughter in the box office hit,

The Game Plan. Her commitment to her career and her determination in being cast in the

role of Treece are evident in her willingness to gain 15 pounds for the I Love You, Beth

Cooper screen test (and more than 30 pounds for the role). Lauren can currently be seen

on television as the Mac Genius in the Apple Computer commercials. She will next be

seen in the Screen Gems thriller The Roommate.

SHAWN ROBERTS (Kevin) recently completed production on Edge of

Darkness, opposite Mel Gibson for director Martin Campbell and GK Films. Roberts

starred in The Weinstein Company’s George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead and in Lions

Gate Films’ Skinwalkers. His other film credits include: Land of the Dead, directed by

George A. Romero for Universal Pictures; X-Men, directed by Bryan Singer for

Twentieth Century Fox; and the successful Canadian teen comedy Going the Distance.

Roberts was raised in Stratford, Ontario, and began acting professionally at age

12, when he landed a lead role on the CBC series Emily of New Moon, which was

produced by Academy Award®-winning producer Michael Donovan. Since the

completion of the show’s successful run, Roberts has worked continuously in film and

television.

ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS

CHRIS COLUMBUS (Director / Producer) is a major force in contemporary

Hollywood filmmaking, from his anarchic, genre-bending 1980s classics Gremlins and

The Goonies, to the blockbuster Harry Potter films, which are among the most successful

book-to-screen adaptations of all time.

Columbus was born in Spangler, Pennsylvania, and grew up outside of

Youngstown, Ohio. As a student, he aspired to become a commercial artist. He spent

several years studying art and oil painting, eventually becoming interested in drawing

Spider-Man for Marvel Comics. Columbus eventually made the connection between

comic books and movie storyboards. In high school, he began making his own

homegrown 8mm films and drawing his own storyboards, which he continues to this day.

After high school, he enrolled in the Directors Program at New York University’s

prestigious Tisch School of the Arts.

Columbus first attained success as a screenwriter. While still in college, he sold

his first script, Jocks, a semi-autobiographical comedy about a Catholic schoolboy who

struggles with his religion and his inability to succeed on the high school football team.

After graduating from NYU, Columbus wrote a small town drama entitled Reckless

(1984), based on his experiences as a factory worker in Ohio. The film was directed by

James Foley and starred Aidan Quinn and Daryl Hannah.

Columbus gained prominence in Hollywood writing several original scripts

produced by Steven Spielberg. The back-to-back hits of the Joe Dante-directed Gremlins

(1984) and The Goonies (1985), helmed by Richard Donner, were decade-defining films

that intertwined high notes of offbeat, edgy, often outrageous humor against more classic

adventure-thriller backdrops. He next wrote the fantasy adventure Young Sherlock

Holmes, which was directed by Barry Levinson.

These screenwriting achievements led Columbus to directing his first feature,

Adventures in Babysitting (1987), starring Elisabeth Shue. A meeting with John Hughes

brought Columbus to the helm of Home Alone (1990), the first of three collaborations.

Home Alone, and its hugely successful follow-up, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

(1992), were universal in appeal and launched the career of Macaulay Culkin. Only the

Lonely (1991), a bittersweet comedy-drama directed by Columbus from his own

screenplay, was praised for featuring one of the late John Candy’s best performances, and

for the return of legendary star Maureen O’Hara to the screen.

Columbus’ smash hit comedy Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), starring Robin Williams and

Sally Field, bent genders as well as genres, to great critical and public success.

Columbus directed another comedy, Nine Months (1995), with Hugh Grant and Julianne

Moore, before turning to drama with Stepmom (1998), starring Julia Roberts and Susan

Sarandon.

Columbus faced a daunting task when he was called upon to direct Harry Potter

and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001), the first film based on J.K. Rowling’s monumentally

successful series of books. With millions of avid and sometimes fanatical readers —

both young and old — in a high state of expectation and anticipation, Columbus cast

newcomers Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint in the leading roles as

Harry Potter and his friends, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley. Once again, he

demonstrated his facility for nurturing and cultivating young talent and turning them into

natural screen performers.

The success of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was followed by Harry

Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), which once again met with huge box office

success. He served as producer on the blockbuster Harry Potter and the Prisoner of

Azkaban, and directed the film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway musical,

Rent (2005). He was a producer on the hit Night at the Museum, with Ben Stiller and

Robin Williams, in 2006, as well as this summer’s follow-up, Night at the Museum:

Battle of the Smithsonian.

He is currently directing the fantasy-adventure Percy Jackson & the Olympians:

The Lighting Thief for Fox 2000 Pictures, based on the best-selling novel.

LARRY DOYLE (Screenwriter (based on his novel) / Executive Producer) is a

1976 graduate of Buffalo Grove High School, the setting for his 2007 novel, I Love You,

Beth Cooper. He was not the valedictorian like the book’s protagonist, ranking only 13th

out of 500, although several of the students above him took pretty easy classes.

Doyle has wandered through a writing life that has seen him reporting on the early

AIDS epidemic and the Challenger explosion, doing comic strips and editing magazines,

and writing for the best television show of all time. He currently makes his living writing

screenplays while contributing to The New Yorker and other magazines.

Doyle began his career with a seven-year stint at United Press International,

where he was a medical and science reporter. For a short while thereafter, he was

editorial director of First Comics, then the third largest comic book company in the

country. He left that to write the newly revived Pogo comic strip, which appeared in

more than 300 papers. He then became an editor at the National Lampoon, which, thanks

largely to his efforts, folded a year later.

He was executive editor of SPY magazine during the last of the funny years, and

went on to be an editor-writer for New York magazine for four years. During that time,

he also wrote several episodes of Beavis and Butt-Head.

Doyle was a writer and supervising producer of The Simpsons for four years,

where he won two Emmys and an Annie® award. He was the writer and executive

producer of the film Looney Tunes: Back in Action, and produced eight new Looney

Tunes shorts for Warner Bros. He also wrote the movie Duplex, starring Ben Stiller and

Drew Barrymore.

Doyle has written for numerous magazines, including Esquire, GQ, Rolling Stone,

Harpers and Time. He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker’s “Shouts and

Murmurs” section. His second novel, Go Mutants!, will be released by Harper-Collins in

2009.

He lives outside Baltimore with his wife Becky, their three children and one dog,

until it dies, and then no more dogs, according to the wife. The wife’s sister is married to

Campbell McGrath, the famous poet who won a MacArthur Super Genius Grant, and

once hit his brother-in-law in the face with an oar and then wrote a poem about it.

In 2008, Doyle also won an award, which, while no ^#&*%$ genius grant, was a

pretty darn good one. He is the son of Irish immigrants, who only recently have accepted

that he will probably not become a doctor.

More information and assorted amusements can be found at larrydoyle.com.

MARK RADCLIFFE (Producer) continues his long association with director

Chris Columbus, which dates back to 1988, when he served as assistant director on

Columbus’ second directorial effort, Heartbreak Hotel, his homage to Elvis Presley.

Since the birth of their partnership, Radcliffe has served as producer or executive

producer on such Columbus-helmed films as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (serving as executive producer on both), and

Mrs. Doubtfire, Stepmom, Rent, Bicentennial Man, Nine Months and his current project,

the epic fantasy-adventure, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (all as

producer). He also produced the third installment in the Potter franchise, Harry Potter

and the Prisoner of Azkaban, directed by Alfonso Cuarón (sharing a BAFTA Award as

Best Children’s Film and a second nomination as Best British Film).

Working together in their 1492 Pictures production entity, Radcliffe also

produced Fantastic Four and the sequel, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer,

Christmas with the Kranks, Jingle All the Way, Night at the Museum and this summer’s

sequel, Night at the Museum: Battle for the Smithsonian. His producing duties began on

three early Columbus triumphs—Home Alone (on which he doubled as assistant director

and associate producer), Only the Lonely (as co-producer and assistant director), and

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (executive producer).

A native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Radcliffe began his film career as assistant director

on the Francis Ford Coppola production The Escape Artist, re-teaming with Coppola on

Rumble Fish and Peggy Sue Got Married. Other assistant director credits include John

Hughes’ She’s Having a Baby and Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Jerry Zucker’s

Oscar®-nominated 1990 hit, Ghost, Donald Petrie’s Mystic Pizza and Paul Schrader’s

Light of Day. He also served as production manager on the 1979 film Rock ‘n’ Roll High

School.

MICHAEL BARNATHAN (Producer) is President of 1492 Pictures, in which he

is a producing partner with Chris Columbus and Mark Radcliffe. The company was

formed in May 1994. Barnathan served as producer on Nine Months, Jingle All the Way,

Stepmom, Cheaper by the Dozen, Rent, Night at the Museum and Night at the Museum:

Battle for the Smithsonian. He was executive producer on Harry Potter and the

Sorcerer’s Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the

Prisoner of Azkaban.

Currently, he is a producer on the fantasy-adventure Percy Jackson & the

Olympians: The Lightning Thief, for Fox 2000 Pictures.

Prior to joining 1492 Pictures, Barnathan was Senior Vice President of Production

at Largo Entertainment for four years. His responsibilities included supervision of both

development and production of Largo’s films. Before joining Largo, Barnathan spent

seven years working for Edgar J. Scherick Associates. During his tenure, he produced

and executive-produced numerous cable movies, movies of the week and mini-series,

including The Kennedys of Massachusetts, which received nine Emmy nominations.

Barnathan is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

JENNY BLUM (Executive Producer) is Senior Vice President of Production for

1492 Pictures. Her career began in 1994, when she worked in set production of the HBO

movie, Witch Hunt. Since that time, she has amassed an impressive and varied resume,

beginning as second assistant director on several projects, and graduating to first assistant

director on multiple independent titles, working with a diverse group of multi-

hyphenates.

Some of her more recent feature film credits include: writer/director/actress

Nikhil Kamkolkar’s multi-racial romantic comedy, Indian Cowboy;

producer/director/editor Dana Packard’s dramatic thriller, Mr. Barrington; the New

York-set romantic comedy A Tale of Two Pizzas, from writer/director Vinnie Sassone;

the thriller Beacon Hill, from writer/director Michael Connolly; USA Films’ Session 9,

the horror film from writer/director/editor Brad Anderson; producer/director Lauren

Himmel’s award-winning Treading Water; and Sam the Man, starring Fisher Stevens and

Annabella Sciorra, helmed by producer/director Gary Winick. Her additional credits as

first assistant director are the indies I’ll Take You There, Saturn and Enough Already.

She also served as second assistant director on Next Stop Wonderland, starring Hope

Davis and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, written and directed by Brad Anderson (The

Machinist).

MICHAEL FLYNN (Executive Producer) began his producing career under the

tutorship of Edward R. Pressman. While working for Pressman, he was fortunate to

associate-produce films such as True Stories, Masters of the Universe, Wall Street, Talk

Radio, Walker, To Sleep With Anger and Reversal of Fortune. He subsequently produced

Stacy Cochran’s My New Gun (showcased at the Cannes Director’s Fortnight) before

beginning a career as a line producer. His credits include Romeo Is Bleeding, Ed Wood,

Pushing Tin, Remember the Titans, Hearts In Atlantis, Monster-In-Law, Because I Said

So, Hamlet 2 and Extract. He’s currently serving as the executive producer of Beastly for

CBS Films.

PHIL ABRAHAM (Director of Photography) received four Emmy nominations

for his filming of the HBO award-winning ratings juggernaut The Sopranos. On his fifth

nomination—for the pilot episode of the stylish, hit series from AMC, Mad Men—he

took home the statue. Abraham has been behind a camera since 1987, and has a prolific

resume of feature film and television credits as first/second assistant camera, camera

operator, cinematographer or director.

His film credits as cinematographer include Annapolis, starring James Franco;

Cherry, starring Shalom Harlow and Jake Weber (NBC’s The Medium); For the Love of

the Game (second unit), starring Kevin Costner and Kelly Preston; and the Martin

Scorsese documentary My Voyage to Italy. His camera work may also be seen in the

features Forever Mine, The Out-of-Towners, Gloria, Living Out Loud, Illuminata,

Godzilla and Primary Colors; in the telefilms M.O.N.Y. and Our Town; and in the series

Six Degrees, Spin City, Brooklyn South and Tales from the Darkside. He has directed an

episode each of the series Breaking Bad and Crash, and multiple episodes of Mad Men.

HOWARD CUMMINGS (Production Designer) recently worked on David

Koepp’s wry comedy Ghost Town, having also collaborated with Koepp on his directorial

debut, the thriller Trigger Effect, and on his next film, Secret Window.

Cummings’ most recent credits include the film adaptation of the musical Rent,

directed by fellow San Franciscan Chris Columbus and starring most of the original

Broadway cast.

Cummings has worked with two other San Francisco-based directors – Terry

Zwigoff on Art School Confidential, based on the outsider comic book by Dan Clowes;

and with Francis Ford Coppola on The Rainmaker, based on the John Grisham novel and

starring Matt Damon, Claire Danes and Danny DeVito. Cummings also worked with

DeVito on What’s The Worst That Could Happen?, as well as DeVito’s Death to

Smoochy, starring Edward Norton and Robin Williams.

Cummings provided the production design for Steven Soderbergh’s dark thriller

The Underneath. It was on this project that Cummings met Greg Jacobs, Soderbergh’s

assistant director, and when Jacobs directed the genre film Wind Chill, Cummings

executed the production design. Cummings worked with John Schlesinger on his last

film, the comedy/drama The Next Best Thing, and with Bruce Beresford on the thriller

Double Jeopardy.

In the action/adventure world, Cummings provided the production design for

Renny Harlin’s The Long Kiss Goodnight. Cummings also designed Alan Rudolph’s

dark thriller Mortal Thoughts, and Bryan Singer’s Oscar®-winning thriller The Usual

Suspects, an ensemble drama for which Kevin Spacey won an Oscar.

For the American Playhouse series on PBS, Cummings designed Lanford

Wilson’s Lemon Sky, starring Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Casey Affleck and Lindsay

Crouse, and Horton Foote’s On Valentine’s Day. He also designed PBS’ A Shock to the

System, starring Michael Caine, Signs of Life and The Spitfire Grill, which starred Alison

Elliott.

Cummings’ other television work includes the telefilms Indictment: The

McMartin Trial, A Dangerous Affair, Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of

Johnson Whittaker and HBO’s Strapped, an urban drama about illegal gun use, which

was Forest Whitaker‘s directorial debut.

PETER HONESS, A.C.E. (Editor) recently edited Chris Weitz’s epic fantasy

The Golden Compass. Prior to that, he worked with Wolfgang Petersen on the thriller

Poseidon and on his 2004 historical epic, Troy. He began his motion picture career

editing low-budget films and documentaries, earning an American Cinema Editors Eddie

nomination in 1974 for his editing of the documentary Following the Tundra Wolf.

Honess briefly turned to feature film sound editing before becoming an assistant film

editor on John Irvin’s Dogs of War in 1981.

The list of films edited by Peter Honess suggests he is receptive to the

collaborative nature of filmmaking, forming bonds with certain directors who seem to

seek his services whenever possible. He edited four films directed by John Schlesinger:

The Believers (1987); Madame Sousatzka (1988); Eye For an Eye (1996); and

Schlesinger’s final picture, The Next Best Thing (2000). Honess collaborated with

director Fred Schepisi on four projects, starting with his feature film adaptation of David

Hare’s stage hit Plenty (1985), followed by The Russia House (1990), Mr. Baseball

(1992) and his film adaptation of John Guare’s acclaimed play, Six Degrees of Separation

(1993).

Russell Mulcahy is another director for whom Honess edited four movies:

Highlander (1986); Ricochet (1991); The Real McCoy (1993); and The Shadow (1994).

Honess also worked on two more films with John Irvin, Champions (1984) and Next of

Kin (1989). Additionally, Honess edited two for director Harold Becker: Mercury Rising

(1998); and Domestic Disturbance (2001).

Honess’ other credits include Curtis Hanson’s critically acclaimed L.A.

Confidential in 1997, which garnered him an Academy Award nomination and a BAFTA

for Best Editing. More recently, he worked with director Jon Turteltaub on The Kid

(2000), with Rob Cohen on The Fast and the Furious (2001), I Love You Beth Cooper’s

Chris Columbus on Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) and director Karyn

Kusama on Aeon Flux (2005).

KAREN MATTHEWS (Costume Designer) designed the wardrobe for

Paramount/DreamWorks’ Things We Lost in the Fire and New Line Cinema’s The Last

Mimzy. Matthews was also responsible for costuming the surprise hit thriller Snakes on a

Plane. Other feature credits include White Noise, mem-(o)-re, Long Weekend and The

Christmas Cottage, the latter starring Peter O’Toole.

For the small screen, Matthews designed costumes for numerous television

movies, including Jack for Showtime, Return to Halloweentown for Disney Productions,

Fishing With John for WTN, Harvey and Captains Courageous for Hallmark

Entertainment and Stealing Sinatra, starring William H. Macy and David Arquette, for

Showtime.

Matthews also served as costume designer on the miniseries, Dragon Boys,

Voyage of the Unicorn (Best Costumes Award winner, Canada’s The LEOS) and The

Pictures of Hollis Woods, starring Sissy Spacek. Her series television credits include The

Mountain, starring Barbara Hershey and Oliver Hudson for Warner Bros., and Out of

Order, starring Eric Stoltz, Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy for Showtime.

CHRISTOPHE BECK (Composer) has composed scores for over 40 feature

films and nearly 20 television shows. With more than 15 years of experience, Beck has

scored a wide array of projects, including such action films as The Sentinel and Elektra;

the comedies Charlie Bartlett, The Pink Panther and Bring It On; and such dramas as

Under the Tuscan Sun and Year of the Dog.

Beck recently composed the action adventure The Seeker: The Dark is Rising; the

comedies The Hangover, Drillbit Taylor and What Happens in Vegas; the drama Phoebe

in Wonderland; the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury nominee The Greatest; and the

comedy sequel The Pink Panther 2.

His additional credits include School for Scoundrels, License to Wed, We Are

Marshall, Yours, Mine and Ours, Taxi, A Cinderella Story, Saved!, Garfield, Cheaper by

the Dozen, American Wedding and Just Married.

Beck’s upcoming projects include Post Grad and All About Steve, both feature

comedies scheduled for release this year from Twentieth Century Fox.

He began his scoring career on the Canadian television series White Fang, and

from there went on to score three seasons of the hit television series Buffy the Vampire

Slayer, for which he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition.

PATRICK HOULIHAN (Music Supervisor) has been programming non-score

music for motion pictures for more than 15 years, starting out as a music coordinator on

The Sweetest Thing, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Ready to Rumble,

Charlie’s Angels, Freddy Got Fingered and Bubble Boy. He also had cuts on the

soundtracks for Senior Trip, A Walk to Remember and the more recent Just Friends,

starring Ryan Reynolds.

He rose to the position of music supervisor for the features EuroTrip, Little

Manhattan, Just Friends, The Wedding Weekend, My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Deck the

Halls, Firehouse Dog, The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising and The Rocker, headlined by

Rainn Wilson from the hit series The Office. His work will next be heard in Fox

Atomic’s Post Grad, starring an ensemble cast that includes Alexis Bledel, Michael

Keaton, Jane Lynch, Rodrigo Santoro and Carol Burnett.

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FOX ATOMIC Presents

“I LOVE YOU, BETH COOPER”

Directed by.............................................. CHRIS COLUMBUS

Screenplay by................. LARRY DOYLE, based on his novel

Produced by ............................................ CHRIS COLUMBUS

................................................................ MARK RADCLIFFE

.......................................................MICHAEL BARNATHAN

Executive Producers .........................................JENNY BLUM

.......................................................................LARRY DOYLE

.................................................................. MICHAEL FLYNN

Director of Photography ..............................PHIL ABRAHAM

Production Designer.......................... HOWARD CUMMINGS

Edited by.......................................... PETER HONESS, A.C.E.

Music by ................................................CHRISTOPHE BECK

Music Supervisor................................PATRICK HOULIHAN

Costume Designer.................................KAREN MATTHEWS

U.S. Casting by.......................JANET HIRSHENSON C.S.A.,

............................................MICHELLE LEWITT C..S.A. and

............................................................. JANE JENKINS C.S.A

Canadian Casting by ................. COREEN MAYRS C.S.A and

...........................................HEIKE BRANDSTATTER C.S.A.

HAYDEN PANETTIERE

PAUL RUST

JACK T. CARPENTER

LAUREN LONDON

LAUREN STORM

SHAWN ROBERTS

ALAN RUCK

CYNTHIA STEVENSON

A 1492 PICTURES Production

A CHRIS COLUMBUS Film

Unit Production Managers ........................ MICHAEL FLYNN

...........................................................WENDY S. WILLIAMS

First Assistant Director ...............................JOHN McKEOWN

Second Assistant Director.................... KATHY HOUGHTON

CAST

Beth Cooper.....................................HAYDEN PANETTIERE

Denis Cooverman ................................................ PAUL RUST

Rich Munsch....................................... JACK T. CARPENTER

Cammy.....................................................LAUREN LONDON

Treece ......................................................... LAUREN STORM

Kevin........................................................ SHAWN ROBERTS

Dustin...............................................................JARED KEESO

Sean.......................................................... BRENDAN PENNY

Valli Wooley................................ MARIE AVGEROPOULOS

Greg Saloga.............................................JOSHUA EMERSON

Mr. C...................................................................ALAN RUCK

Mrs. C..............................................CYNTHIA STEVENSON

Coach Raupp ........................................................... PAT FINN

Dr. Gleason.............................................. ANDREA SAVAGE

Sullen Girl (Angelica) ..........................VIOLET COLUMBUS

Patty Keck ................................... ANNA MAE ROUTLEDGE

Victoria Smeltzer............................................. ANJA SAVCIC

Paul Bergie .....................................WILLIAM C. VAUGHAN

Young Rich..............................................DARIEN PROVOST

Convenience Store Clerk ................................SAMM LEVINE

Female Cop at High School............................ELLIE HARVIE

Cop at Lake................................................... DALIAS BLAKE

Raupp’s Sophomore 2 ...............................EMILY TENNANT

Raupp’s Sophomore 3 ........................................MAGGIE MA

Librarian ................................... NATALIE VON ROTSBURG

Laughing Teen #1.....................................DHARROL ALVES

Laughing Teen #2.....................................KARYN BALTZER

Laughing Teen #3.......................................DEVIN DREWITZ

Laughing Teen #4.....................................................LUCY LU

Party Boy #1.........................................BRANDON BARTON

Party Boy #2..............................................JOHN GULAYETS

Young Bully #1 ......................................... DANTE ALRIDGE

Young Bully #2 ........................................IFEANYI OBANYE

Stunt Coordinator (US)...................................... BOB BROWN

Stunt Coordinator (Canada)................................DEAN CHOE

Stunts..NICK ALLEN, DOUG CHAPMAN, CORRY GLASS

..DAVID JACOX, BRADLEY LOREE, GREG SCHLOSSER

SCOTT ATEAH, LAURA LEE CONNERY, JASON GLASS

. BRAD KEZLY, MIKE MITCHELL, HEATH STEVENSON

..........IEISHA AUYEUNG, D. DICKINSON, LARS GRANT

ANDREA KINSKY, TONY MORELLI, ELI ZAGOUDAKIS

..................NICKOLAS BARIC, JIM DUNN, ROB HAYTER

...................JON KRALT, JEFF SANCA, SIMON BURNETT

...........RYAN ENNIS, LEANNE HINDLE, CODY LAUDAN

......................................................................ZAK SANTIAGO

Made in Association with DUNE ENTERTAINMENT III

LLC

and

Produced in Association with INGENIOUS FILM

PARTNERS / BIG SCREEN PRODUCTIONS

Art Director ............................................. SANDRA TANAKA

Art Department Coordinator...............................LISA LEUNG

Art Department Assistant .................... JOANNE McARTHUR

Set Decorator ....................................... MARY-LOU STOREY

Set Designers......................JOSEPH MAY, GREG VENTURI

...................... PETER BODNARUS, ANDREI ANDRIANKO

Assistant Set Decorator ............................. DIANA CONWAY

Set Dec Buyer.................................................... CINDY ROSE

Lead Dresser............................................ STEVE ROWLAND

On Set Dresser................................................ STEVE HOULE

Set Dressers ..................................... MARY ANN CHARNEY

............................... ELENA DRESSER, JAMIE WESTBURY

Cheerleading Consultant.................................... MOE BRODY

Third Assistant Director.......................KATHERINE KEIZER

Trainee Assistant Director ...................HAYLEE HUBSCHER

A Camera/Steadicam Operator ........................ DAVE CRONE

B Camera Operator ............................ SCOTT MACDONALD

First Assistant A Camera .....................................SIMON JORI

First Assistant B Camera .............................. DAVID LOURIE

Second Assistant A Camera..........................RICH SINCLAIR

Second Assistant B Camera.......................CYNTHIA GREER

Camera Loader........................................ ANDREW CAPICIK

Stills Photographer....................................JOSEPH LEDERER

Sound Mixer ................................. MICHAEL WILLIAMSON

Boom Person............................................ CHARLES O’SHEA

Cable Person ........................................ WILLIAM A. UNRAU

Catering...........................................TRUFFLES FINE FOODS

Chef............................................................NATHAN JENSEN

Assistant Chefs ..SACHA SCHADDELEE, DANA PHILLIPS

First Aid/Craft Service NANCY KRESS, BARBARA BEEBY

Property Master..............................................DEAN BARKER

Assistant Property Master.................................TONY XEROS

Props Buyer ....................................................NEIL FAIRALL

Script Supervisor....................................JESSICA CLOTHIER

First Assistant Editor .......................... BRETT DE CARROLL

Avid Assistants ................................................ TOM CABELA

Preview Online Editor............................. RAINER STANDKE

Canadian Avid Assistant ....................................THOM KYLE

Editorial Production Assistant ........................RUSSELL LUM

Projectionist ................................. JACQUES BLACKSTONE

Post Production Supervisor........................... BRUCE SZELES

Post Production Coordinator......................................................

....................................... STACEY THOMPSON MATTEOLI

Gaffer.......................................................... DAVID TICKELL

Best Boy Electric......................................TREVOR TAYLOR

Genny Operator...............................................TOM WATSON

Lamp Operators ..................................JAMES McMURACHY

............................SAUBRIE MOHAMED, DANNY FRASER

..................................................................PAUL MATSALLA

Rigging Gaffer ....................................... PHILIPPE LACROIX

Rigging Best Boy........................................... KURT ZELMER

Riggers.........................JOE PETERS, ANDREW MACLEOD

................................. LEE WASHBURN, CHRIS TOBIASON

Key Grip .................................................. TONY WHITESIDE

Best Boy Grip ..................................................MATT ALMAS

Dolly Grips ...........RUSSELL HAWKES, JAMES SALBERG

Company Grips...................ROBERT LITTLE, DEAN RECA

......................................JAMES WILLIAMS, DREW DAVID

......................................... JESSE OLVER, IVOR PEDERSEN

Key Rigging Grip......................................... KEVIN McCLOY

Best Boy Rigging Grips RICK GUENTHER, JULIEN BOSSE

Rigging Grips..................................RICHARD LABOSSIERE

.............................................GAVIN HILL, TROY BASSETT

Assistant Costume Designer .................. JANICE MACISAAC

Costume Coordinator....................................KEVIN KNIGHT

Set Supervisor...............................................NICOLA RYALL

Set Costumer................................ JODY LEANNE PETFORD

Prep Costumer.....................................HISAMI YAMAMOTO

Key Makeup Artist................................................ LISA LOVE

Assistant Makeup ................................... TERESA A. MEYER

Key Hairstylist...........................................THOM McINTYRE

Assistant Hairstylist.....................................GINA SHERRITT

Location Manager.................................... CATOU KEARNEY

Assistant Location Manager........CASEY NELSON-ZUTTER

Trainee Assistant Location Manager ................. KOHL JONES

Location Scouts ............ FIONA CROSSLEY, DOUG WHITE

Location Assistants.......DAVID COSTELLO, CHRIS SMITH

................................. JESSICA FESKIN, JASON BLATTLER

Production Coordinator ...........................PATRICIA FOSTER

First Assistant Coordinator.............................CRAIG J. LANE

Second Assistant Coordinators...............KIMBALL JANSMA

.................... STEPHEN BENABO, KIMBERLY BUCKHAM

Special Effects Coordinator.........................ALEX BURDETT

Special Effects Best Boy ........................... STEVE WOELFLE

Shop Foreman......................................................ROB FALCK

Fabricators ...................TONY KOCHAN, PAUL BENJAMIN

Special Effects Rigger ............................. PERRY BECKHAM

Special Effects Assistants............................. KAI HIRVONEN

.................................................................MARK HAIGHERM

Construction Coordinator ................. CHARLES LEITRANTS

Construction Buyer......................................SHARON DEVER

Construction Foreman ..............................ALAN K. ROURKE

Lead Carpenters. DAVID MURRAY, CHRIS RICHARDSON

On Set Carpenter .................................... GLEN W. HERLIHY

Scenic Carpenters .........DAVID BRAND, WAYNE BROOKS

.................................MARCO BUTTIGNOL, J.D. CROCKET

.........................RICHARD FAHLMAN, GEOFF McVARISH

.........................LLOYD SKARSGARD, RICHARD STYLER

Scenic Helper/First Aid .............................. SHIRLEY BRUCE

Scenic Helper........................ DAVE HAY, BOB MILOGLAV

...............................MICHAEL QUIRK, DAVID REYNOLDS

Head Greensman........................................ERICH J. HEPNAR

Lead Greensmen..... MICHAEL J. SIVER, PHILLIP P. LUNT

Greensmen...................ROBERT H. HICKS, DAVID BAILIE

On Set Greensman..........ANDREW GILLARD-THOMPSON

Paint Foreman..............................................HERMINIO KAM

Labor Foreman .........................................JASON CLARIDGE

Lead Painter....................................... DARRYL TIFENBACH

Onset Painter ............................................MARK TOMPKINS

Scenic Painters......................KAREN KENT, JOHN B. KEYS

....................................................................... GLEN TAYLOR

Assistant to Mr. Columbus ...........ELIZABETH DEVEREUX

Assistant to Mr. Radcliffe........................LAUREN SIMPSON

Assistant to Mr. Flynn ............................. KENNEDY DAVEY

Cast Assistant .................................................TRISTAN REES

Production Accountant .......................... DEBERA BARAGER

Assistant Accountants......................CHARLENE CALLIHOO

......................................................................... SYLVIA JANG

Assistant Accountant/Payroll............................MARC BORJA

Accounting Clerk...................................... SHERI BUCKHAM

Post Production Accountants...................NATALIE MATHES

............................................................. SUSANA FATTORINI

Assistant Post Production Accountant..........ALISON REITER

Animal Trainer ...................................................DANA DUBE

U.S. Casting Associates ....JAMIE CASTRO, ANDY HENRY

Canadian Casting Assistant .........................AMY NYGAARD

Extras Casting .......................................STEPHANIE BOEKE

Unit Publicist ....................................... PATRICIA JOHNSON

Sustainable Filming Services Provided

By............................................... CTP MEDIA CONSULTING

..............................DAVID BECK and MATTHEW COOPER

Video Assist........................................................DAVE JOSHI

Transportation Coordinator...........................SYLVIA NABLO

Transportation Captains... CLIFF BROWN, BERT PREVOST

Marine Coordinator.......................................JASON CROSBY

First Assistant Director ............................... GEOFF HANSEN

Second Assistant Director ......................SUNDAY STEVENS

Post Production Sound Services by

SKYWALKER SOUND

A LUCASFILM LTD. COMPANY

MARIN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA

Supervising Sound Editor ............................ ROBERT SHOUP

Sound Mixing .....................GARY RIZZO, JUAN PERALTA

Sound Effects Editors ..............................STEVE BISSINGER

............................................................. DOUGLAS MURRAY

Dialogue Editors ................... JOHN NUTT, STEVE SLANEC

Assistant Supervising Sound Editor................KIM FOSCATO

Assistant Sound Editor................................JEREMY MOLOD

Foley Artists...................ELLEN HEUER, DENNIE THORPE

Foley Mixer ............................................... FRANK RINELLA

Foley Recordist...........................................SEAN ENGLAND

Mix Technicians ..........ZACH MARTIN, NATHAN NANCE

Digital Transfer....................................JONATHAN GREBER

.............CHRISTOPHER BARRON, JOHN COUNTRYMAN

Recordist......................................................... RON ROUMAS

ADR Mixer .........................................CHARLEEN STEEVES

ADR Recordist.......................................DAVID LUCARELLI

Voice Casting.................................................LOOP DE LOOP

Voice Cast.................. RICHARD EPCAR, JOHN GIDCOMB

...............JEREMY GLAZER, WALTER EMANUEL JONES

.......................................SUSAN LESLIE, DEVIKA PARIKH

..........................COURTNEY PELDON, SARAH POYNTER

.......................................................... JASON GRANT SMITH

Negative Cutter.............................................GARY BURRITT

Preview Projectionist .........................................LEE TUCKER

Lab Color Timer ............................................. CHRIS REGAN

Main and End Title Design ............................PACIFIC TITLE

Digital Intermediate Facility..........................................EFILM

Digital Intermediate Project Manager.............CHRIS PREJZA

Digital Film Colorist ...........................NATASHA LEONNET

Music Editor ...................... MARK JAN WLODARKIEWICZ

Score Recorded and Mixed by .......................CASEY STONE

Additional Score Recording by ................... STEVE KAPLAN

Score Coordinator ......................................... JAKE MONACO

Music Preparation............................................ROBERT PUFF

Orchestra Contracted by ................................. DAVID SABEE

Temp Music Editor ................................. SCOTT STAMBLER

SECOND UNIT

Second Unit Director.........................................BOB BROWN

Unit Manager...........................................BONNIE BENWICK

Second Unit Director of Photography .......................................

.............................................. DONALD McCUAIG ASC/CSC

First Assistant Director....................................NICO SACHSE

Script Supervisor ...................................... INGRID KENNING

Camera Operator.............................................MIKE WRINCH

First Assistant Camera.......... JOHN SEALE, CAM HAYDUK

Gaffers.................................CORY HODSON, BILL KASSIS

Key Grip ................................................ TOM KACZMARSKI

On Set Property .................................KEVIN SANTAROSSA

Set Supervisor........................................ MARIE MELANSON

Chapman Camera Cranes & Dollies

Provided by................................................................................

................. PS PRODUCTION SERVICES, LTD. - CANADA

Camera Support Provided by ......................J.L. FISHER, INC.

SONGS

FORGET ME

Written by Eleni Mandell

Performed by Violet Columbus

Produced by Rob Cavallo

TRUE

Written by Gary James Kemp

Performed by Lazlo Bane

STAR IN THE MAKING

Written by Brian Lapin, Terence Yoshiaki, Mike

Fratantuno and Josef Lord

Performed by Transcenders featuring J7 D’Star

Courtesy of Transcenders, LLC

THE BATTLE, THE DUEL, THE VICTORY

Written by Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Courtesy of Warner Bros. Entertainment

TOO MUCH, TOO YOUNG, TOO FAST

Written by Joel O’Keeffe and Vick Wright

Performed by Airbourne

Courtesy of Capitol Records/Roadrunner Records /

EMI Music Australia Pty Limited

LADY LUCK

Written by Mike Fratantuno, Terence Yoshiaki and Brian

Lapin

Performed by Transcenders

Courtesy of Transcenders, LLC

THE RIDE OF THE VALKYRIES

Written by Richard Wagner

Courtesy of Extreme Music

III

NEW WAVE

Written by Thomas James Gabel

Performed by Against Me!

Courtesy of Warner Bros. Records Inc.

By arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV

Licensing

FEELS LIKE THE FIRST TIME

Written by Michael Jones

Performed by Foreigner

Courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corp.

By arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV

Licensing

HEAVENLY VIEW

Written and Performed by Rebecca Borel Gray

Courtesy of RESERVE MUSIC, Gene Michael Productions

SCHOOL’S OUT

Written by Michael Bruce, Glen Buxton, Dennis

Dunaway, Alice Cooper and Neal A. Smith

Performed by Alice Cooper

Courtesy of Warner Bros. Records Inc.

By arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV

Licensing

STARTING ALL OVER AGAIN

Written by Sydney Dale

Courtesy of Opus 1 Music

SWAY

Written by Luke Pritchard

Performed by The Kooks

Courtesy of Virgin Records Ltd./Astralwerks

Under license from EMI Film & Television Music

BETH

Written by Stanley Penridge, Bob Ezrin and Peter Criss

Performed by Kiss

Courtesy of The Island Def Jam Music Group

Under license from Universal Music Enterprises

TRY IT AGAIN

Written by Randy Fitzsimmons

Performed by The Hives

Courtesy of Interscope Records

Under license from Universal Music Enterprises

CATCH ME IF YOU CAN

Written by Disashi Lumumba-Kasongo, Travis McCoy,

Matthew Mcginley, Patrick Stump and Pete Wentz

Performed by Gym Class Heroes

Courtesy of Fueled By Ramen Decaydance/Atlantic

Recording Corp.

By arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV

Licensing

SHUT UP AND LET ME GO

Written by Katie White and Julian De Martino

Performed by Ting Tings

Courtesy of Columbia Records and SONY BMG

MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (UK) Ltd.

By arrangement with SONY BMG MUSIC

ENTERTAINMENT

LET IT ROCK

Written by Dwayne Carter and Kevin Rudolf

Performed by Kevin Rudolf feat. Lil’ Wayne

Courtesy of Cash Money Records/Universal Records

Under license from Universal Music Enterprises

A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME

Written by Damian Kulash Jr. and Timothy Nordwind

Performed by OK Go

Courtesy of Capitol Records

Under license from EMI Film & Television Music

COME OUT OF THE SHADE

Written by Ola Kluft, Martin Gustafson, Pehr Astrom and

Thomas Hedlund

Performed by The Perishers

Courtesy of Nettwerk Productions

LET IT BE ME

Written and Performed by Ray LaMontagne

Courtesy of RCA Records Label

By arrangement wit Sony Music Entertainment

CRUISIN’

Written by William Robinson and Marvin Tarplin

Performed by Smokey Robinson

Courtesy of Motown Records

Under license from Universal Music Enterprises

FORGET ME

Written and Performed by Eleni Mandell

Produced by Rob Cavallo

"THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD" Licensed by

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. and Turner Entertainment

Co.

Prints by DELUXE®

FILMED WITH PANAVISION®

CAMERAS & LENSES

KODAK

FILM STOCK (Logo)

DOLBY STEREO (logo)

In Selected Theatres

DTS

American Humane monitored the

animal action. No animals were

harmed. (AHAD 01212)

Approved No 45026

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Brazil, Italy, Japan, Korea and Spain.

Limited Liability Company, Twentieth Century Fox Film

Corporation and Dune Entertainment III LLC in Brazil, Italy,

Japan, Korea and Spain.

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Big Screen Productions 3 LLP, Big Screen Productions 2 LLP

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