Broken Lizard

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Broken Lizard (dt about. Cracked or broken lizard ) is an American comedy troupe known for their films Super Troopers - The Super Cops , Club Dread , and Beerfest . The five regular members are Jay Chandrasekhar , Kevin Heffernan , Steve Lemme , Paul Soter and Erik Stolhanske . They write the scripts together and play the leading roles in their films, with Jay Chandrasekhar also directing in most cases.

history

Broken Lizard's first film, Puddle Cruiser , takes place on the Colgate University campus and in the city of Hamilton , New York , where the comedy troupe graduated. Her first film to be shown to a wider audience was Super Troopers , which is about five apparently clumsy police officers from the Vermont Highway Patrol who are waging a guerrilla war with rival city ​​police . The film was presented at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival and was sold by Cinetic Media and acquired by Fox Searchlight , which released it worldwide in February 2002.

The film received only mediocre reviews, but after its release on DVD it became something of a cult film. The group's next film - Club Mad - is about a killer who is up to mischief on a vacation island.

In 2006 the film Bierfest was released , which is about two American brothers who put together a team of professional beer drinkers to beat a German team in a secret international beer drinker competition in Munich. Well-known actors such as Donald Sutherland , Jürgen Prochnow , Ralf Moeller and Willie Nelson appeared in this film .

The shooting for Broken Lizard's next project - The Slammin 'Salmon (German: Slammin' Salmon - Butter bei die Fisch! ) - began on February 7, 2008 and was completed after 25 days of shooting. The film premiered on January 17, 2009 at the Slamdance Film Festival in Utah and was released in US cinemas on December 11, 2009. Michael Clarke Duncan , known from The Green Mile among others , plays the role of Cleon Salmon , the owner of the eponymous restaurant The Slammin 'Salmon .

Members

supporting cast

In addition to the regular members, there are also frequently recurring supporting actors, such as MC Gainey ( Hank in Club Mad and the priest in Bierfest), Michael Weaver ( Roy in Club Mad, urban policeman in Super Troopers), Nat Faxon ( Rolf in Bierfest and Manny in Club Mad) and Philippe Brenninkmeyer (as a German Porsche driver in Super Troopers and Mr. Referee in Bierfest).

Filmography

Announced projects

  • The Babymaker
  • Super Troopers 2 (planned US release: 2017)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Super Troopers 2 (2016). In: IMDb . Amazon.com , accessed June 9, 2016 .