The Real Cancun

Infobox Film | name =The Real Cancun


caption = DVD cover for "The Real Cancun"
director = Rick de Oliveira
producer = Rick de Oliveira
writer = Brian Caldirola
starring =
music = Snoop Dogg
Simple Plan
Hot Action Cop
cinematography =
editing = James Gavin Bedford
distributor = New Line
released = April 25 2003
runtime = 96 min
language = English
budget = $7,500,000
gross = $5,345,000
imdb_id = 0360916

"The Real Cancun" is a 2003 American reality film released on April 25, 2003 in the U.S.

Inspired by the reality television genre, this film followed the lives of 16 Americans from March 13, 2003 to March 23, as they celebrated spring break in Cancún, Mexico and experienced romantic relationships, emotional strife, or just had a good time. [ [http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117920552.html?categoryid=31&cs=1 The Real Cancun Review - Read Variety's Analysis Of The Movie The Real Cancun ] ]

The film was widely considered a box office bomb and was a nominee for Worst Picture at the 2003 Golden Raspberry Awards.

However, the film was notable for several reasons. It was released to movie theaters only a month after filming was completed, [ [http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117920552.html?categoryid=31&cs=1 The Real Cancun Review - Read Variety's Analysis Of The Movie The Real Cancun ] ] and was released on DVD and home video only a couple of months after that, [ [http://www.newline.com/properties/realcancunthe.html New Line Cinema : Real Cancun, The ] ] marking one of the fastest turnarounds ever from production to theatrical release to home video. The movie is also notable for being one of the first American mainstream, major studio releases to show unsimulated sexual intercourse between "cast members," although nothing explicit is shown on screen. The DVD release contained additional footage, but the producers chose not to include any explicitly pornographic images. One of the most memorable moments was when Sarah Wilkins was stung by a jellyfish during a bungee jump; she was treated by having another vacationer pour a glass of his urine over the wound.

The movie took in $3,825,000 domestically and $1,520,000 Internationally, coming well short of its $7,500,000 production cost. [ [http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=realcancun Box Office Mojo - Movie Index, A-Z ] ] The initial DVD release that followed was, in turn, followed in 2005 by an extended edition DVD that included extra footage.

Some early media reports suggested that this film was a theatrical spin-off of "The Real World" reality series, also produced by Bunim-Murray Productions, but in fact there was no direct link between the two productions.

This movie also popularized the now-ubiquitous "FBI - Female Body Inspector" t-shirts, seen on beaches during Spring Breaks across the world.

Cast members

*Benjamin "Fletch" Fletcher
*Nicole Frilot
*Roxanne Frilot
*Brittany Brown-Hart
*David Ingber
*Jeremy Jazwinski
*Michael Scherer
*Amber Madison
*Paul Malbry
*Marquita "Skye" Marshall
*Laura Ramsey
*Matthew Slenske
*Teddy Kaplan
*Alan Taylor
*Heidi Vance
*Casey Weeks
*Joshua Allen
*Sarah Wilkins
*Jorell
*Jonathan Betley

References

External links

*imdb title|id=0360916|title=The Real Cancun