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.
Beerfest (2006)
Directed by: Jay Chandrasekhar
Starring: Paul Soter, Jay Chandrasekhar, Erik Stolhanske, Cloris Leachman, Will Forte, Mo’nique, Ryan Blanchard, Jürgen Prochnow, Owain Yeoman, Bjorn Johnson, Steve Lemme
Screenplay by: Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme
Production Design by: Clark Hunter
Cinematography by: Frank G. DeMarco
Film Editing by: Lee Haxall
Costume Design by: Tricia Gray
Set Decoration by: Gabriella Villarreal
Art Direction by: David Baca
Music by: Nathan Barr
MPAA Rating: R for pervasive crude and sexual content, language, nudity and substance abuse.
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: August 25, 2006
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