Tagline: Bring on the beer. They’ve got the nuts.
“Beerfest” is the story of two brothers who go to Oktoberfest and stumble upon a super-secret centuries-old beer games competition. When American brothers Todd and Jan Wolfhouse 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, the consummate skills player with a dark past; Phil Krundle (AKA Landfill), a one-man chugging machine; and Steve “Fink” Finklestein, the lab tech with a PhD 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.
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Beerfest
Starring: Paul Soter, Jay Chandrasekhar, Erik Stolhanske, Cloris Leachman, Will Forte, Mo’nique, Ryan Blanchard
Directed by: Jay Chandrasekhar
Screenplay by: Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme
Release Date: August 25th, 2006
MPAA Rating: R for pervasive crude and sexual content, language, nudity and substance abuse.
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Box Office Totals
Domestic: $19,185,184 (94.1%)
Foreign: $1,202,413 (5.9%)
Total: $20,387,597 (Worldwide)