Ugly Americans

Category: Comedy
MPAA rating: PG-13?
Release pattern: Wide??
Studio: Dreamworks
Principal Players: Michelle Trachtenberg, Travis Wester and Jacob Pitts.
Writers & Directors: Alec Berg, David Mandel, and Jeff Schaffer (former Seinfeld writers)
Buzz: Production to begin in April 2003.

IPOing at $18 on 7/23/02, Ultimate Frisbee writes:
The Ugly Americans tells the story of two friends, one of whom has a German pen pal helping him out with his high school German assignments. He is quite surprised to learn his German writing buddy is a female and flies off to Germany for some adventure. The Ugly Americans is clearly a teen movie brought to us three former Seinfeld writers. According to a partner in the production company, "On the one level, it's a teen movie, but one that takes a fresh look at the genre, a really smart and different look at it." While Seinfeld definitely took a fresh look at comedy on TV, can the writers succeed with a teen movie aiming to be about something more than nothing?