Artie Lange's Beer League

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Artie Lange's Beer League
No Gut, No Glory
Directed by	Frank Sebastiano
Produced by	Artie Lange
Written by	Artie Lange Frank Sebastiano
Starring	Artie Lange Ralph Macchio Anthony DeSando Cara Buono Jimmy Palumbo Jerry Minor with Laurie Metcalf and Seymour Cassel
Music by	John Debney
Editing by	Peter Fandetti
Distributed by	Echo Bridge Entertainment
Release date(s)	September 15, 2006 (USA)
Running time	86 min.
Language	English
Budget	$2,800,000 (Estimate)
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Artie Lange's Beer League is a 2006 movie written, produced, and starring Artie Lange. It was released in selected theaters on September 15, 2006 in the New Jersey, New York, Cleveland, and Philadelphia areas. The DVD was released on January 2, 2007.

1 Plot
2 Trivia
3 Cast
4 External links

[edit] Plot

Beer League is a comedy about Artie DeVanzo (Artie Lange), an unemployed underachiever who still lives with his mother and plays in a small town softball league in New Jersey with his rag-tag group of misfit friends. Artie's team faces off with their rivals, headed by Dennis Manganelli (Anthony DeSando), and the two rivals do more fighting than playing. When Artie's team is threatened with permanent expulsion from the local league after being jailed for yet another fight on the field, they must rally and move from last place to first - in one brief season, while Artie tries to hold on to the only woman who loves him for who he is.

[edit] Trivia

The title was promoted as Artie Lange's Beer League so that it would not be confused with another movie, Beerfest. The on-screen and DVD title is ""Beer League."

This film was inspired by a 2001 short film titled Gameday starring Lange, Michael Deeg and Jimmy Palumbo. It can be seen on the DVD Artie Lange: It's the Whiskey Talkin'.

Tina Fey made a cameo appearance in the film as a favor to her SNL co-writer and friend, Frank Sebastiano. She played an employee at the gym and only had one line. In a November 2006 interview on the Howard Stern Show on Sirius Satellite Radio, she claimed that as a result of taking the one-line part in Beer League, she was forced to join the Screen Actors Guild, costing her around $1,000.

In its opening weekend, the film made $302,908 on 164 screens, coming in at #28 at the box office.

Ione Skye auditioned for the role of Linda.

Originally scheduled to open on August 11,2006.

Artie Lange joked in interviews that Ralph Macchio was cast because "his audition was better than Scott Baio's." However, according to the DVD's audio commentary, Scott Baio did in fact audition for the part of Manganelli. Also, Artie said that he very much enjoyed working with Ralph Macchio and that Macchio helped him get through the more relatively dramatic scenes.

[edit] Cast

Actor	Role
Artie Lange	Artie DeVanzo
Ralph Macchio	Maz
Anthony DeSando	Dennis Mangenelli
Cara Buono	Linda Salvo
Jimmy Palumbo	Johnny Trinno
Joe Lo Truglio	Dave
Jerry Minor	Tim
Seymour Cassel	Dirt
Michael Deeg	Alfonse
Laurie Metcalf	Artie's Mom
Jim Breuer	Football Guy
Maddie Corman	Marilyn
Tina Fey	Gym Secretary