I Know What You Did Last Summer is an Award-winning 1997 horror film. It stars Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Freddie Prinze, Jr., and Anne Heche. The screenplay was written by Kevin Williamson, which was based on a popular novel by Lois Duncan. The film was followed with the sequels, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer and the straight-to-video I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (520x685, 78 KB) Licensing The girls in this picture have nice racks File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Lois Duncan, American writer and novelist, was born Lois Steinmetz silly puddy is a yummy treat ehhheeheheApril 28, 1934 in Philadelphia. ... Kevin Williamson at the Century City premiere of Columbias Vertical Limit. ... Jennifer Love Hewitt (born February 21, 1979) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. ... Sarah Michelle Gellar (born April 14, 1977) is an American actress. ... Ryan Phillippe (born Matthew Ryan Phillippe on September 10, 1974) is an American actor. ... Freddie James Prinze (born March 8, 1976) is an American actor, perhaps best known for his leading roles in teen-oriented films. ... John Debney (born Glendale, California, 18 August 1956) is a prolific American film composer who received an Oscar nomination for his score for Mel Gibson`s The Passion of the Christ. ... The Columbia Pictures logo from 1993 to the present Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. ... is the 290th day of the year (291st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the band, see 1997 (band). ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... I Still Know What You Did Last Summer is a horror film released in 1998 as a sequel to I Know What You Did Last Summer. ... For the band, see 1997 (band). ... “Horror Movie” redirects here. ... Jennifer Love Hewitt (born February 21, 1979) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. ... Sarah Michelle Gellar (born April 14, 1977) is an American actress. ... Ryan Phillippe (born Matthew Ryan Phillippe on September 10, 1974) is an American actor. ... Freddie James Prinze (born March 8, 1976) is an American actor, perhaps best known for his leading roles in teen-oriented films. ... Anne Celeste Heche (IPA: ) (born May 25, 1969) is an American actress, director and screenwriter. ... Sample from a screenplay, showing dialogue and action descriptions. ... Kevin Williamson at the Century City premiere of Columbias Vertical Limit. ... This article is about the literary concept. ... Lois Duncan, American writer and novelist, was born Lois Steinmetz silly puddy is a yummy treat ehhheeheheApril 28, 1934 in Philadelphia. ... I Still Know What You Did Last Summer is a horror film released in 1998 as a sequel to I Know What You Did Last Summer. ... Ill Always Know What You Did Last Summer is a horror film released straight to DVD on August 15, 2006 as the direct-to-video sequel to 1998s I Still Know What You Did Last Summer and the third installment in the series. ...

Production

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Kevin Williamson's screenplay was purchased before his screenplay for the movie Scream. It was only after Scream's success that producers rushed Williamson's screenplay for I Know What You Did Last Summer into production. Scottish director Jim Gillespie was hired by producer Neal H. Moritz to make his debut feature film on the strength of his 10 minute short film "Joyride". The film was shot in Southport, North Carolina, which also served as the film's setting. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... Kevin Williamson at the Century City premiere of Columbias Vertical Limit. ... Scream is a 1996 horror film, directed by Wes Craven and written by Kevin Williamson. ... The population was 2,351 at the 2000 census. ...

Plot

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After teenager Helen Shivers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) wins the annual Croaker County Beauty Pageant, she and her boyfriend Barry William Cox (Ryan Phillippe) party on the beach with their respective best friends: Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt) and Ray Bronson (Freddie Prinze, Jr.). The four tell horror stories about a huge, hook-handed man who periodically kills young lovers. As they swerve home along a shoreline road, Barry spills his bottle of whiskey over Ray, who tries to clean the mess when a shape suddenly looms in the headlights. Before any of them know what has happened, they've skidded to a stop in the middle of the road. Although at first believing it was an animal, they realize that the dent on the car could not have been created from an animal. Julie finds a fisherman's boot on the side of the road and a few feet down the road, they see a man's body lying lifeless. They have been drinking, and if they turn to the police, all of their post-high school dreams will likely be shattered: no college football for Barry; no law school for Julie; no heading to New York for Helen or Ray. Barry, a bitter jock, convinces his friends to help him dispose of their victim's body, although the others would rather report the accident. The 4 take the body to the pier and dump his body in the water. However, when they were lifting him in, he stole Helen's crown so Barry jumps in and gets it. Under the water, he sees the mans eyes open and swims to the surface and gives Helen her crown. The four swear to take this incident to their graves and never tell a soul about the incident. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Sarah Michelle Gellar (born April 14, 1977) is an American actress. ... Ryan Phillippe (born Matthew Ryan Phillippe on September 10, 1974) is an American actor. ... Julie James is a fictional character from the Award-winning 1997 teen slasher movie I Know What You Did Last Summer and its 1998 follow up I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. ... Jennifer Love Hewitt (born February 21, 1979) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. ... Freddie James Prinze (born March 8, 1976) is an American actor, perhaps best known for his leading roles in teen-oriented films. ...

A year later, after her first year at college, Julie returns home. She has been performing poorly in school due to the guilt she feels from the past incident. While spending time with her mother, she receives a mysterious letter which reads, "I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER." Julie finds out that Helen has returned from New York because it "didn't work out." Julie believes that she never actually made it to New York. She now works at a department store, under the supervision of her elder sister Elsa (Bridgette Wilson). Ignoring Elsa's objections, Helen and Julie head off to find Barry. Judging by Barry's current condition, it is evident that he is the only one of the four who has felt little or no guilt from the incident. He immediately suspects Max of sending the letter. Julie remarks that the man was still alive when they dumped him in the water. The police found the body of the man they killed last year, and he was identified as David Egan. Bridgette Leann Wilson (born September 25, 1973), also known as Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, is an American actress. ...

Max is murdered by a man wielding a hook, and Barry is run over by the same man. Julie arrives at the hospital and is greeted by Ray. They go to Barry's hospital room, where he and Helen await them. Doing some quick research, Helen and Julie discover that two years ago, David Egan accidentally killed his girlfriend, Susie, in the same location that they ran him over. They find the location of David’s sister, Missy Egan, and they decide to visit her for information. During the course of their conversation, Missy mentions Billy Blue, a young handsome man, who visited her, saying he was best friends with David Egan. Julie and Helen now suspect that David’s friend Billy Blue is trying to avenge his friend’s death.

Julie drives Helen home. The fisherman enters the house and goes into her room when she is in the kitchen. He hides in her closet. Helen's sister Elsa comes in and says that she needs Helen to work at the store tomorrow. Helen replies that she has the parade tomorrow, while brushing her long hair. Elsa says that she and her hair are pathetic. The next morning, Helen awakens to find herself wearing her old "Croaker Queen" crown. Her hair has been cut off to the shoulder and left on her pillow; the word "SOON" is written in lipstick on her mirror. When she sees it, she screams and shatters the mirror with her fist. Helen promptly calls Barry and Julie, both of whom she tells about the incident. While rushing over in her car, Julie hears a scratching noise in her trunk. She stops the car to investigate...and finds the murdered Max wearing Barry's stolen jacket. Crabs are crawling all over the corpse. Julie screams, shuts her trunk and flees for Helen's. Barry and Helen come to see but when the open the trunk Max's body is gone. Julie says that the fisherman must have took the body and that he has them exactly where he wants them and they can't go to the police because he's made sure of it. He's just out there watching them and waiting.

The next day, Helen is due to partcipate in the Croaker Queen Pageant, but is frightened that the fisherman will attack her. Before the pageant, Barry holds Helen tightly and promises that everything will be okay. During the pageant, however, the Fisherman attacks Barry from behind on the balcony. Helen sees the killer dragging Barry out of sight. She begins to shout and cry for someone to help him, but it's of no use; she is held back by the crowd, thwarting her attempts to go and rescue Barry, who is killed by the fishermen.

The policeman taking her home via car is forced to take the back alley with Helen in the back. A car has broken down in front of them blocking their way, so the policeman gets out of the car to see if he can help. Helen realizes that the man who's car has "broken down" is the fisherman and screams at the policeman telling him to turn around. When the policeman does however, it is too late. The fisherman kills him, lies him on the floor, and cleans his hook.

Stuck in the back of a police car, Helen tries to get out, but the doors are locked from the inside. In desperation, Helen kicks the window and smashes it. She scrambles out as the killer walks after her. Helen runs to her sister's shop and bangs abruptly on the locked door, getting Elsa's attention. Elsa takes her time to get the keys to open the door as the killer is descending upon Helen. Elsa eventually opens the door and allows Helen to come in, commenting that the back door is unlocked. Helen tells her to lock it while Helen calls the police.

Elsa enters the back storage room as the back door closes. Elsa locks the door and turns around after noticing that someone is behind her. The fisherman looks upon her as Elsa is rooted on the spot in fear, apparently petrified. The fisherman reveals his hook and brings it down on Elsa, causing her to scream, alerting Helen. Elsa is now dead.

Helen hears the scream and calls for her sister, but her sister doesn't answer. She walks down a flight of stairs slowly and walks past a few mannequins with dust covers upon them. The lights turn off and the fans on the ceiling stop. She turns slowly around and looks alarmingly at the mannequins. The fisherman is beneath one and jumps on Helen, making them both fall over a table with equipment on it and they both fall to the floor.

Helen quickly gets up and runs away just as the killer gets up and takes the dust cover off himself. She runs to the loading dock doors but they won't budge, so she looks to her left and sees Elsa dead next to a toilet. Helen lets out a blood-curling scream and sees the killer coming towards her. Helen spots a hand-controlled pulley and climbs aboard it. She pulls on the rope and brings the elevator up. The fisherman swipes at her legs with his hook and she narrowly dodges each and every swing. So the fisherman then takes the stairs as Helen eventually gets into the attic.

As she falls to the floor and gets back up, she sees the killer at the top of the stairs. She runs into an empty room. She opens the window closest to the door and climbs through. She clings onto the window ledge and looks down, spotting rubbish (wood etc.). She looks back and the killer swings his hook at her but misses as Helen jumps off the side of the building and falls into the pile of rubbish. Dazed, she looks up and sees that the killer isn't there, so she gets up and heads down multiple back alleys towards a roaring parade.

Only a few steps to go to get into the parade full of people who could help, she hears a noise behind her. She turns around and looks to see if the Fisherman has been following her, but there is no sign of him, so she turns back towards the parade. Standing directly in front of her is the fisherman, who grabs Helen and shoves her to the side into a pile of tyres, blocking them from view of the parade. He swings his hook at her but she grabs his arm. The fisherman pushes her to the other side of the alley and swings his hook at her again twice. Helen ducks and puts her arms above her head, causing the fisherman to miss her. The killer wraps his arm around her and keeps trying to stab her with his hook as she tries to punch and push him away. The two again go to the other side of the alley. Helen tries poke him in the eyes but he shoves her hand away and stabs her with his hook, killing Helen. The blasting music from the marching band and the screaming fans of the parade block out the screams that Helen makes.

Meanwhile, Julie at last figures out David Egan's true identity. After meeting with Ray, she solves the mystery. They didn't run over David Egan one year ago, but someone else. Because the face was disfigured and bloody, they were unable to truly identify who the person was; Julie believes that Ben Willis, Susie's father, tried to avenge his daughter's death by killing her boyfriend/murderer, David Egan. Missy, however, believed that David committed suicide due to guilt and depression. David was actually murdered by Ben Willis and was set up to look like a suicide. His body was the one found by the police in the docks. Ben Willis was the man that Julie and her friends ran over; however, he lived and returned to kill them. The fisherman is Ben Willis; this is revealed to Julie when he pulls out the large fishing-hook from his jacket. The older man is also wearing dirty Wellington boots, the same boots Julie found at the incident a year ago. Julie begins to run and tries to jump off the boat but they are too far away from the dock. She flees down inside the boat and locks the door. Ben starts trying to open the door so she runs into the ice meant for storing fish. She finds the corpses of Barry and Helen in the ice and screams and cries. Ray comes aboard and saves Julie from Ben. The chase ends with Ben getting his hand chopped off, and then thrown overboard. Although later, nobody can find his body, only his hand and the fish hook. The sheriff says not to worry and that the body "usually" turns up.

A year later, Julie is back at college. (Ben Willis’s body remains missing.) She prepares to take a shower after finishing a telephone conversation with Ray. A dorm-mate passes by and tells Julie that she has mail: a letter which looks exactly like the one Julie received last year, the letter which started her entire nightmarish ordeal. To Julie's relief, it is only an invitation to a pool party. Returning to her shower room, however, she finds it completely filled with steam. She finds the words "I STILL KNOW" written on the glass shower-door. A shadow of Ben Willis bursts through the glass, and it suddenly cuts to the credits.

Differences Between the Movie and the Novel

Essentially, the two have little to nothing in common except the title and a few names.^{[citation needed]}

Lois Duncan, the author of the book, was barred from the set of the movie.^{[citation needed]} She was not aware of the drastic changes to her source material until she saw the completed film.

• The novel is set in New Mexico, while the movie is set in North Carolina.
• In the novel, the victim's name is David Gregg, not David Egan. He is a young boy on a bike, and the novel's villain is David's older brother seeking retribution. He is not a fisherman, never uses a hook, and is not a killer, although he seeks to murder Julie.
• In the novel, Barry is driving the car, and it is a hit and run accident, not a cover up.
• For the movie, Elsa and Helen's last name was changed from "Rivers" to "Shivers."
• In the novel, Helen works as a weather girl for the local news station; she is successful enough that she can afford to live at The Four Seasons, a swanky apartment complex. In the movie, Helen lives at home after failing to make it as an actress in New York, and she works for her father's department store.
• In the novel, Julie is a year younger than Barry and Ray, and is at the end of her senior year in high school at the beginning of the story. She has just been accepted into Smith College. In the movie, Julie graduates the same year as Barry and Ray, and is struggling with low grades at Duke University.
• In the novel, Helen is thrown a couple of stories from the bathroom window of her condominium; although now crippled, she survives to report the incident.
• In the novel, Barry is shot in the abdomen and has to be fitted for a colostomy bag, thereby ending his sports career before it begins; ultimately, he dissolves the pact by agreeing to report what he and his friends did last summer, when it becomes only too clear that all four of their lives are being jeopardized in every sense.
• In the novel, only Julie receives the note while Helen receives a drawing, Ray receives a newspaper clipping and Barry receives a phone call. In the movie, only notes are delivered, to both Julie and Ray.
• The novel begins with Julie receiving the note. The movie begins with the night of the accident.

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Awards and nominations

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Reception

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Opening to $15.8 million in 2,524 theatres on October 17th, 1997, the slasher was declared a hit from the beginning. The movie stayed in the top position for three consecutive weeks. The end result was a total of $72.5 million in the US and a worldwide theatrical gross in excess of $125 million. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ...

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Subsequent careers

After the film's release, Prinze and Hewitt emerged as two of the most popular young stars in the U.S. Prinze went on to do a string of romantic comedies aimed at the teenage market. However, Hewitt's career floundered in the late 1990s after a poorly reviewed television biography of Audrey Hepburn and an ill-fated 1999 television series called "Time of Your Life." Her career has seen some recovery since she received a starring role in the hit CBS Television Show Ghost Whisperer. Romantic comedy films are movies with light-hearted, humorous dramatic stories, centered around romantic ideals such as a true love able to surmount most obstacles [1] or the perfect couple. Romantic comedy films are a sub-genre of comedy films as well as of romance films. ... Audrey Hepburn (4 May 1929 - 20 January 1993) was an Academy Award and Tony Award winning Anglo-Dutch actress of film and theatre, Broadway stage performer, ballerina, fashion model, and humanitarian. ... Time of Your Life cast Time of Your Life was a Party of Five spinoff starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, playing the role of Sarah Reeves, the same role she played in the parent show. ... This article is about the broadcast network. ... Ghost Whisperer is an American television drama-fantasy-thriller that premiered on CBS September 23, 2005. ...

Meanwhile, Gellar was already one of the most popular young actresses in America, and her role in the movie, along with her title role on the new TV series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," began a long career of horror films and television shows for the actress. She furthered her horror career by appearing later that year in Scream 2. She would later star in 2004's The Grudge and also in 2006's sequel The Grudge 2 and the horror thriller The Return. For other uses, see Buffy the Vampire Slayer (disambiguation). ... Scream 2 is a 1997 film, the second part of the Scream trilogy. ... This article is about the movie. ... The Grudge 2 is the 2006 sequel to the 2004 American horror film remake The Grudge. ... The Return is a 2006 psychological horror / thriller film directed by Asif Kapadia. ...

Phillippe's career has grown substantially since the film's release, and he received critical acclaim for his performances in Crash and Flags of Our Fathers. Crash is an Academy Award-winning drama film directed by Paul Haggis. ... Marines raising the US flag on Iwo Jima in a publicity still from Flags of Our Fathers. ...

Phillippe also co-starred with Gellar in Cruel Intentions. Prinze and Gellar later co-starred as Fred and Daphne in Scooby Doo (2002) and its sequel, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004). This article is about the first movie in a series. ... Scooby-Doo is a 2002 live-action film, based on the popular Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon of the same name. ... Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed is a 2004 American movie sequel. ...

Gellar and Prinze married in 2002. Gellar denied her interest in Prinze began when they met on the set of this film.^{[citation needed]} Prinze was romantically involved with Kimberly McCullough at the time. Kimberly McCullough (born March 5, 1978 in Bellflower, California, USA) is an Emmy Award-winning actress. ...

See also

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External links

• I Know What You Did Last Summer at the Internet Movie Database