American Movie documents the story of filmmaker Mark Borchardt, his mission, and his dream. Spanning over two years of intense struggle with his film, his family, financial decline, and spiritual crisis, American Movie is a portrayal of ambition, obsession, excess, and one man’s quest for the American Dream.
Tag: beer
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Try Seventeen
Teenager Jones has opted not to go to college and is instead renting a room in a boarding house to work on his writing skills. Soon, Jones finds himself dividing his time between two women: a young actress named Lisa and a photographer named Jane. After Jane’s ex-boyfriend arrives to help her recover from a car accident, Jones begins to understand just how much he cares for her.
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Run Ronnie Run
A redneck with an uncanny knack for getting arrested becomes the star of his own reality program.
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Eight Crazy Nights
Davey Stone, a 33-year old party animal, finds himself in trouble with the law after his wild ways go too far.
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The Saddest Music in the World
In Depression-era Winnipeg, a legless beer baroness hosts a contest for the saddest music in the world, offering a grand prize of $25,000.
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Old School
Three friends attempt to recapture their glory days by opening up a fraternity near their alma mater.
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Beerfest
During a trip to Germany to scatter their grandfather’s ashes, German-American brothers Todd and Jan discover Beerfest, the secret Olympics of downing stout, and want to enter the contest to defend their family’s beer-guzzling honor. Their Old Country cousins sneer at the Yanks’ chances, prompting the siblings to return to America to prepare for a showdown the following year.
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You, the Living
In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that rush past. Some are just seconds long, none longer than a couple of minutes. A young woman remembers a fantasy honeymoon with a rock guitarist. A man awakes from a dream about bomber planes. A businessman boasts about success while being robbed by a pickpocket, and so on. The absurdist collection is accompanied by Dixieland jazz and similar music.
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The Winning Season
A comedy centered on a has-been coach who is given a shot at redemption when he’s asked to run his local high school’s girls basketball team
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Road Trip: Beer Pong
It’s Road Trip – Beer Pong! Three college roommates are on the ride of their lives when they drop everything to join a bus full of sexy, scantily clad models to compete in the ultimate sport competition: the National Beer Pong Tournament.