The Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew is a 1983 film starring the popular SCTV characters Bob & Doug McKenzie, played by Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis, who also served as co-directors. Max von Sydow co-stars. The story is loosely based on the Shakespearean play Hamlet, with the McKenzie Brothers taking the roles of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
Most of the film was shot in the Southern Ontario area. Toronto, Kitchener, and Hamilton w...
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The Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew is a 1983 film starring the popular SCTV characters Bob & Doug McKenzie, played by Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis, who also served as co-directors. Max von Sydow co-stars. The story is loosely based on the Shakespearean play Hamlet, with the McKenzie Brothers taking the roles of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
Most of the film was shot in the Southern Ontario area. Toronto, Kitchener, and Hamilton were the main locations. Parts of the movie were also filmed in Prince George, British Columbia.
It begins like a typical Great White North sketch on SCTV, but then cuts away to the story. Two unemployed brothers, Bob and Doug McKenzie, are in a bind when they give away their father's beer money and then run out of beer. The brothers place a mouse in a beer bottle in an attempt to get free Elsinore beer from the local beer store, but are told to take up the matter at the Elsinore brewery instead. After presenting the evidence to management at...
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