• Genre: Comedy
  • Release Date: 05/30/2008
  • Running Time: 85 mins
  • Director: Jody Hill
  • Cast: Danny McBride, Ben Best, Jody Hill, Carlos Lopez, Mary Jane Bostwick, Spencer Moreno, Ken Aguilar, Tyler Baum, Sean Baxter, Bruce Cameron
  • Producer: Erin Gates, Jody Hill, Robbie Hill and Jennifer Chikes
  • Writer: Jody Hill
  • Distributor: Paramount Vantage
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Box Office

  1. Quantum of Solace, 67.5 million, 67.5 million
  2. The Dark Knight, 26.1 million, 441.6 million
  3. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, 35.0 million, 116.9 million
  4. Pineapple Express, 23.2 million, 41.3 million
  5. Role Models, 11.2 million, 37.6 million
  6. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, 16.5 million, 71.0 million
  7. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, 10.7 million, 19.6 million
  8. High School Musical 3: Senior Year, 5.7 million, 84.2 million
  9. Step Brothers, 9.1 million, 81.1 million
  10. Changeling, 4.3 million, 27.6 million
  11. Mamma Mia!, 8.2 million, 104.1 million
  12. Zack and Miri, 3.1 million, 26.5 million
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  14. Soul Men, 2.4 million, 9.4 million
  15. The Secret Life of Bees, 2.3 million, 33.6 million
  16. Hancock, 3.3 million, 221.7 million
  17. Saw V, 1.8 million, 55.4 million
  18. WALL-E, 3.1 million, 210.2 million
  19. Beverly Hills Chihuahua, 1.6 million, 90.9 million
  20. Swing Vote, 3.1 million, 12.0 million
Movie Title, Weekly Earnings, Total Earnings

The Foot Fist Way

Boorish tae kwon do instructor Fred Simmons (Danny McBride) is a strip-mall hero for whom demonstrating his cinder-block-breaking skills to parking-lot gawkers is “my fucking life.” Fred takes seriously—or at least talks seriously about—the tenets of his combat technique, while being completely oblivious to what’s happening just outside his storefront kingdom. He considers himself a warrior; meanwhile, the world is kicking his ass. Director Jody Hill shot The Foot Fist Way mock-doc style; it’s probably for the best, since nothing much happens as the film ambles from sketch to sketch. There’s only the loosest of plots, involving Fred’s bleached-blonde wife (Mary Jane Bostic), who fucks around with her boss, sending Fred into a tailspin—and providing the punching bag with further reason to act like a douchebag. There’s something real about this guy—and something real nasty about him, too, something that lingers after the movie’s choked a few laughs out of an audience that won’t know whether to pity Fred or punch him. Truthfully, The Foot Fist Way is no different from an episode of The Office or Curb Your Enthusiasm: This is irritainment, something you snicker at while covering your eyes, praying this guy never gets loose in the real world, when, in fact, he’s your next-door neighbor. Or, God forbid, you. — Robert Wilonsky

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