Due to both of those factors, this one seemed to be pigeonholed and overlooked in its initial release.
You wouldn’t be blamed if you haven’t discovered writer/director Greg Mattola’s ode to summer jobs and the romance that sometimes blossoms from them, so now’s your chance to correct that.
While both Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg are pretty big deals right now, Adventureland is a shared project of theirs that landed at a rather interesting time.
It was the dawning of a new age of tentpoles and indies alike, with the MCU just revving up the year before and Miramax on the decline as an indie stalwart.