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August 2006
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 Open bar, dudes! Beerfest brings the comedy troupe Broken Lizard (Super Troopers) to Oktoberfest, where the boys stumble upon an ancient, secret competition of — what else? — beer games (August 25)....In Belgian director Fabrice Du Welz's The Ordeal, AAA is no help to a stranded motorist who seeks shelter with a psycho hotel owner. Assistance from the locals isn't really an option either, since the townies are crazed French sexual deviants (August 11)....
Grosse Pointe Blank co-writer Steve Pink hops into the director's chair for Accepted, a teen romp about a high school senior (Dodgeball's Justin Long) coping with the pressures of getting into college (August 11)....
The Czech film Lunacy melds the works of Edgar Allan Poe and the Marquis de Sade into a scarefest for the literary set (August 9)....
Based on the wryly comic novel by Charles Bukowski, Factotum gives working nine to five a new meaning as a struggling L.A. writer (Matt Dillon) is fired from a series of degrading jobs (August 18)....
It sounds like the plot to Fear Factor: The Movie, but How to Eat Fried Worms is an adaptation of Thomas Rockwell's beloved children's novel about a young boy who dreams up inventive cooking techniques to win a bet that he can consume 15 creepy crawlers in 15 days (August 25)....
Girls, guns, and guts is the formula behind DOA: Dead or Alive, based on the hit videogame. Jaime Pressly gets all kung fu in a story about — oh, forget it. It's got Jaime Pressly in it. Just be happy with that (August 25)....
Road trip, Argentina-style! The import Rolling Family finds an octogenarian matriarch forcing 12 members of her family into a camper for a cross- country journey to attend a wedding (August 18)....
With Freud making a cameo, how can you go wrong? Spanish director Joaquën Oistrell's Unconscious has a brother/sister-in-law team skirting sexual taboos in fin de siècle Barcelona (August 25)....
Finally, the film you've been waiting all page for, Material Girls. The Duff sisters are at it again: Hilary and Haylie play rich siblings who take a walk on the poor side after losing all their money. But they never, ever lose their sisterly bond. Or their pretty hair (August 25).
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