Beerfest
- Original title
- Beerfest
- Year
- 2006
- Running time
- 111 min.
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Erik Stolhanske
- Paul Soter
- Jay Chandrasekhar
- Steve Lemme
- Kevin Heffernan
- Philippe Brenninkmeyer
- Jürgen Prochnow
- M.C. Gainey
- Cloris Leachman
- Will Forte
- Ralf Moeller
- Mo'Nique
- Donald Sutherland
- Isaac Kappy
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Comedy. Adventure
- Synopsis
- When American brothers Todd and Jan Wolfhouse (Erik Stolhanske and Paul Soter) travel to Germany to spread their grandfather's ashes at Oktoberfest, they stumble upon a super-secret, centuries old, underground beer games competition—Beerfest—the secret Olympics of beer drinking. The brothers receive a less than warm welcome from their German cousins, the Von Wolfhausens, who humiliate Todd and Jan, slander their relatives, and finally cast them out of the event. Vowing to return in a year to defend their country and their family's honor, the Wolfhouse boys assemble a ragtag dream team of beer drinkers and gamers: Barry Badrinath (Jay Chandrasekhar), the consummate skills player with a dark past; Phil Krundle (Kevin Heffernan) AKA "Landfill," the one-man chugging machine; and Steve "Fink" Finklestein (Steve Lemme), the lab tech with a Masters degree in All Things Beer. This Magnificent Five train relentlessly, using their hearts, minds and livers to drink faster, smarter and harder than they ever have before. But first they must battle their own demons... as well as a bunch of big, blond, German jerks who want to destroy the team before they can even make it back to Munich. Revenge, like beer, is best served cold.
Warner Bros. Pictures presents, in association with Legendary Pictures, a Gerber Pictures / Cataland Films / Broken Lizard Production, Beerfest, starring Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, Erik Stolhanske, Will Forte, Ralf Moeller, Mo'nique, with Jurgen Prochnow and Cloris Leachman. Beerfest is directed by Jay Chandrasekhar, written by Broken Lizard, produced by Bill Gerber and Richard Perello, and executive produced by Michael Beugg, Thomas Tull, and William Fay.
Beerfest will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.- Critics' reviews
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"Random silliness rules the day, but the gags are frequently surprising."
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"Beerfest bubbles with the cheeky irreverence of early John Landis and David Zucker. Yet, like just about every other American screen comedy of the moment, it's far too long"
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'Making a comedy that celebrates binge drinking and cretinous behavior isn't a crime against nature. Making one that's as brutally unfunny as 'Beerfest' is"
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"Maybe you don't absolutely have to have a Y chromosome and be 14 years old to appreciate the freshmanic humor that is Beerfest. But, oh, does it help."
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