I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell

Theatrical Release Date: 2009 09 25 (USA - Limited)

UPC: 024543635161

Studio: 20th Century Fox

MPAA Rating: NR   Contains:[Nudity, Strong Sexual Content, Adult Humor, Profanity, Scatological Humor]

Summary: Earning the type of divisive emotional responses normally reserved for those on the far right or the far left of the political spectrum, writer Tucker Max celebrated his debauchery-driven lifestyle in the memoir I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell. Now Max earns credit as both co-screenwriter and producer of the film adaptation with this comedy from Niagara Niagara director Bob Gosse. In the film, Tucker (Gilmore Girls' Matt Czuchry) behaves very badly at his friend's bachelor party, getting his invite to the nuptials revoked. Can he renounce his (not-so) inner selfish jerk in time to recapture his invitation? I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell also stars Geoff Stults, Jesse Bradford, and Traci Lords. ~ Kimber Myers, Rovi

Category: Comedy

Features: cc
Shockin and outrageous outtakes

I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell

Format: DVD

Release Date: 01/26/2010

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Cinemascope

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1

Runtime: 105 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English

Subtitles: Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Disc #1 -- I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
1. Sex With a Deaf Girl (Main Title) [4:50]
2. Unethical Behavior [3:39]
3. We All Need This [5:31]
4. Who's Got Your Back? [4:55]
5. On a Mission [4:58]
6. Talking a Big Game [6:45]
7. You're an Ass [2:54]
8. Final Destination [2:55]
9. Live Long and Prosper [7:15]
10. Caught In a Lie [3:32]
11. Exposed Flank [3:09]
12. Big Dan [2:28]
13. Lights Out! [2:22]
14. Out of His League [3:51]
15. What a Shock [3:00]
16. There She Is! [6:56]
17. A Child and a Fool [3:09]
18. Line In the Sand [4:11]
19. Drinking Alone [3:39]
20. Girls' Night Out [4:33]
21. Where's the Bathroom? [4:24]
22. Cleaning Up His Own Mess [5:57]
23. The Truth Is... [4:33]
24. End Titles [6:00]

Derek Armstrong

It's natural to feel an instant sense of moral superiority over I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, particularly if you're familiar with its writer/producer/main character. The real-world Tucker Max, portrayed here by Matt Czuchry, is famous for trumpeting his sexual exploits with a devilish grin, and has been accused of promoting a culture of date rape. What's more, when we meet his character here, he's having sex with a deaf girl -- part of his checklist of exotic conquests, which he considers a new frontier in his personal battle of the sexes. But many of these (correct) preconceptions about Max diverge from the reality of this movie, in the following way: Max is not so much glamorizing his lifestyle as dramatizing its inevitable shortcomings. If Bob Gosse's film existed merely to stroke its subject's considerable ego, Max wouldn't want to include the three separate episodes where his aggressive tactics fail stupendously. And when he does move toward bedding a prospect, he gets a particularly nasty comeuppance that permanently disqualifies the film from seeming like a vanity project. I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell contains other counterintuitive surprises, like the overwhelmingly positive portrayal of its female leads. Keri Lynn Pratt sweetly sidesteps the usual clich?s of the bride who loathes bachelor parties, and Marika Dominczyk shines as the stripper who goes toe-to-toe with Max's acerbic friend (Jesse Bradford), giving the "whore with the heart of gold" archetype her own empowering spin. Granted, it's possible this film is just Max trying to have the last laugh. It's possible he's just trying to manipulate us, to show us that an infamous misogynist can subscribe to conventional cinematic morality for the betterment of his own image. Then again, if so, it didn't work. Few people saw the film, and most critics hated it. ~ Derek Armstrong, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Bob Gosse  Director 
Max Wong  Producer 
Aaron Ray  Executive Producer 
James L. Venable  Composer (Music Score) 
Richard Kelly  Producer 
Darren M. Demetre  Executive Producer 
Sean McKittrick  Producer 
Karen Firestone  Producer 
Edward H. Hamm, Jr.  Executive Producer 
Shaun Redick  Executive Producer 
Tucker Max  Producer 
Tucker Max  Screenwriter 
Nils Parker  Producer 
Nils Parker  Screenwriter 
Ray Mansfield  Executive Producer 
Matt Czuchry  Actor 
Jesse Bradford  Actor 
Geoff Stults  Actor 
Keri Lynn Pratt  Actor 
Marika Dominczyk  Actor 
Traci Lords  Actor 
Meagen Fay  Actor 
Edward Hibbert  Actor 
Lauren Fain  Actor 
Derek Wayne Johnson  Actor 
Tim Huck  Actor 
Lex D. Geddings  Actor 
Nicole Stelly  Actor 
Susie Abromeit  Actor 
Bill Dawes  Actor 
Paul Wall  Actor 
Patrick Kirton  Actor 
Randal Reeder  Actor 
Nicole Muirbrook-Wagner  Actor 
Elise Ivy  Actor 
Ali Costello  Actor 
Melissa Fumero  Actor 
Patshreba Villegas  Actor 
Drew Curtis  Actor 
Michael A. Worley  Actor 
Tricia Munford  Actor 
Puma Swede  Actor 
Jessica Williams  Actor 
Summer Delin  Actor 
Veronica Rayne  Actor 
Brooke Long  Actor 
Noah Podell  Actor 
Nils Parker  Actor 
Patrick Michael Carney  Actor 
Timothy Ferriss  Actor 
Lazaro Solares  Actor 
Cervantes Reck  Actor 
Yvette Yates  Actor 

Country: USA