I Know What You Did Last Summer
I Know What You Did Last Summer is a 1997 American slasher film starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, and Freddie Prinze Jr. as four teenage friends who are stalked by a hook-wielding killer one year after covering up a car accident in which they supposedly killed a man. It is directed by Jim Gillespie and written by Kevin Williamson, who adapted the 1973 novel by Lois Duncan. It is the first film in the I Know What You Did Last Summer film series.
Plot
On July 4, 1996, in Southport, North Carolina, Julie James and her friends Ray Bronson, Helen Shivers, and Barry Cox drive to the beach while celebrating Helen's victory at the beauty pageant. On the way back, Barry's drunken antics cause Ray to accidentally hit a pedestrian, assuming they killed him. Julie's friend Max passes by on the road, and they hide their crime from him to buy more time to decide what to do. Barry and Helen try to dump the body in the water, but the pedestrian wakes up and grabs Helen. Barry pushes him into the water, and the group makes a pact to never discuss what happened.
More details
| author | Kevin Williamson |
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| contentLocation | North Carolina |
| director | Jim Gillespie |
| editor | Steve Mirkovich |
| events | guilt murder responsibility revenge secrecy |
| genre | horror thriller |
| keywords | 4th of july parade ambush beauty pageant boston car accident death threat helen shivers hit and run hook independence day julie james july 4 kill morning newspaper article on the road police officer rig run suicide note write |
| musicBy | John Debney |
| producer | Erik Feig Neal H. Moritz Stokely Chaffin |
| productionCompany | AFI Catalog of Feature Films Mandalay Pictures |
| publisher | Columbia Pictures |
| recordedAt | North Carolina |
| theme | serial killer slasher teen horror urban vigilante |