Superbad

…two films, Knocked Up and Superbad. Like much of his previous work, the movies drew heavily on his personal youthful experiences and featured unconventional protagonists played by largely unknown, average-looking male actors. In Knocked Up—written, directed, and produced by Apatow—a 20-something slacker (played by Seth Rogen) is forced to grow…

…Hill and Christopher Mintz-Plasse in Superbad, a comedy about socially inept high-school seniors and their misadventures while trying to lose their virginity. The movie was hugely popular, and it showcased Cera’s awkward comedic style, which critics singled out for praise. Later that year he had another box-office hit with the…

…appearing in his breakthrough film, Superbad, in which he and costar Michael Cera played unpopular high schoolers hoping to have their first sexual experience before graduation. Hill continued acting in numerous comedies, including Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) and Apatow’s Funny People (2009), and he took the part of a hapless…

…finally got the chance with Superbad (2007), a raunchy comedy of teenage misadventures that he and Goldberg had originally scripted when they were teenagers themselves; Rogen served as executive producer and appeared briefly as a bumbling police officer. The writing duo returned the following year with Pineapple Express (2008), a…

…Cera in the teen comedy Superbad. Stone continued to appear in similar movies, of which the most notable was the horror comedy Zombieland (2009). The following year Stone achieved her first starring role, in the teen comedy Easy A (2010), as a high school girl who pretends to have slept…