American Pie Presents: The Book of Love

American Pie Presents: The Book of Love
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Directed by	John Putch
Written by	David H. Steinberg
Based on	Characters by Adam Herz
Produced by	Mike Elliott
Starring	Bug Hall Brandon Hardesty Kevin M. Horton Beth Behrs Melanie Papalia Jennifer Holland John Patrick Jordan Louisa Lytton Sherman Hemsley Curtis Armstrong Jim Wynorski Rosanna Arquette Eugene Levy
Cinematography	Ross Berryman
Edited by	John Gilbert
Music by
Production companies	Capital Arts Entertainment[1] Universal Studios Home Entertainment[1]
Distributed by	Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Release date	December 22, 2009
Running time	96 minutes[1]
Country	United States[1]
Language	English

American Pie Presents: The Book of Love is a 2009 American sex comedy film released by Universal Pictures. It is the fourth installment in American Pie Presents film series, a spin-off of the American Pie franchise. The film stars Bug Hall, John Patrick Jordan, Kevin M. Horton, Brandon Hardesty, and Eugene Levy. This was Sherman Hemsley's final film appearance before his death on July 24, 2012.

The film was released direct-to-DVD in the United States on December 22, 2009. It grossed $5.2 million in DVD sales.^[2]

Plot[]

In East Great Falls, Michigan, 11 years after the events of the first film, high-schooler Rob masturbates with a peanut butter sandwich. His dog attempts to eat it and his younger brother Cody films the ordeal and uploads it to YouTube. At school, an embarrassed Rob meets his fellow virgin friends Nathan and Marshall "Lube"; and Nathan reveals that his girlfriend Dana has pledged to abstain from sex until marriage, despite having already slept with several people. Classmate Scott Stifler threatens to make a move on Heidi, Rob's crush, and Lube has a vivid fantasy about cheerleader Ashley. Rob and Heidi meet in the library where she reveals a desire to lose her virginity as soon as possible. At the school dance, Nathan offends Dana when he expects sex after giving her cunnilingus in the parking lot. Rob attempts to tell Heidi his feelings for her but is interrupted by Nathan and Lube, and eventually finds her in the library about to have sex with another student. Shocked, Rob drops a lit tiki torch, starting a fire and setting off the sprinklers.

The next day, while Rob and Heidi are cleaning the library for detention, Rob finds "The Bible", a legendary sex manual compiled by students over forty years, now damaged by the water.

Testing a tip from the book, Rob approaches Ashley in a lingerie store and compliments her. She leads him into a changing room, shows her breasts, and shoves some panties down his pants and tells him to walk out with them. Rob is caught and forced to pay with his mother's credit card. At Dana's church service, Nathan accidentally broadcasts their highly personal conversation to the entire congregation over the PA system, and Dana's father forbids her to see Nathan. Rob's mother confronts him about her credit card charges, and Rob's sarcastic reply that he likes wearing women's underwear is filmed by Cody, who again posts the footage online for the whole school to see.

At a school basketball game, Rob is again unable to tell Heidi how he feels. Following a page in the Bible, Rob and his friends visit a Canadian brothel with a very experienced prostitute, Monique. However, the entry was written in 1975, which Lube misreads as 1995, and the friends are disgusted to meet the now-elderly Monique. She dies while performing fellatio on Rob, and the panicked boys drive home.

Rob finally tells Heidi he has feelings for her, and she reciprocates, agreeing to meet later at Stifler's party. There, Heidi is hurt to hear Rob shout, "Tonight, I'm getting laid!". Lube propositions Ashley but she turns him down. Her friend takes him up on his guarantee of sexual satisfaction, but storms out after finding an offensive text on his phone. Nathan tries to reconcile with Dana but offends her again. Rob finds Heidi in bed with Stifler, and begins drinking heavily. He declares that "only assholes get laid!" and behaves crudely to a random girl, who promptly goes to bed with him but he vomits on the girl's back before they can have sex. The next morning, his mother shows him a video she received of the incident.

Rob and his friends resolve to find all the Bible's original contributors starting with its creator, Noah Levenstein, and eventually succeed in recreating the book.

On the school ski trip, Katie, whom Stifler had been avoiding, is upset that she lost her virginity to him. She defeats him at strip poker, forcing him to apologize and go outside naked, where he is sodomized by a moose. Afterward, he bonds with a sympathetic classmate named Imogen. Nathan has sex with Dana in the ski lift control room, accidentally shutting off the power. Stuck in the lifts, Rob and Heidi reconcile and kiss, and Lube falls off. Ashley climbs down to him, and is moved to tears when Lube explains how he really feels about her. Heidi and Rob return to the cabin and have sex, and Lube and Ashley do the same.

Rob, Nathan, and Lube return the newly restored Bible to its hiding place in the library, after Rob has added his own signature. Cody finds an online video of himself putting a vacuum cleaner on his penis which, to his horror, has been viewed almost 10 million times. Rob appears in the video, broadcasting his revenge.

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Andre Dellamorte of Collider wrote that the film is essentially an excuse to show topless women.^[3] In his review for IGN, R. L. Shaffer said the film series has lost the original film's "thoughtful and heartfelt tone", and, although this film attempts to bring some of that back, it is "too little too late".^[4]

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