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American Pie Presents: Beta House is a 2007 American sex comedy filmreleased by Universal Pictures. It is the third installment in the American Pie Presents series and the sixth installment in the American Pie franchise. The film concludes a story arc that begins with The Naked Mile (2006). John White stars as Erik Stifler, a college freshman who pledges the Beta House fraternity led by his cousin Dwight Stifler (Steve Talley). Christopher McDonald co-stars as Erik's father and Eugene Levy plays Beta House alumnus Noah Levenstein.
Universal commissioned the film after positive commercial reaction to The Naked Mile. Erik Lindsay and W.K. Border, the writer and producer, respectively, as well as four of the five principal cast members from the preceding film returned. Principal photography took place for seven to eight weeks from June 4, 2007 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
American Pie Presents: Beta House was released direct-to-DVDinternationally on December 10, 2007 and in the United States on December 26, 2007. The film was a moderate financial success, generating US$18.55 million in United States sales. It received generally negative reviews from film critics.
After having his girlfriend Tracy break up with him, Erik Stifler and his friend Mike "Cooze" Coozeman arrive at the University of Michigan as freshmen. Upon arriving at his dorm, Erik meets a girl named Ashley while she is taking a shower in the coed bathrooms. He then meets his new roommate Bobby and his girlfriend Margie while they are having sex. Erik is then welcomed by his cousin, Dwight Stifler, the leader of the Beta House fraternity, who invites Erik, Cooze, and Bobby to a Beta House party. They meet Wesley, the rush chair of the Beta House who experiences blackouts after drinking alcohol, and learn how they can gain eligibility to pledge for the Beta House. They are also informed by Dwight that the Geek House, formed by wealthy nerds, has been trying to shut down Beta House.
Erik and Ashley begin dating, but on their first date at a restaurant, Erik is accidentally spilled hot soup on his legs, so Ashley brings him to her room to clean up. As Ashley rubs lotion on Erik's thigh, he involuntarily develops an erection and accidentally ejaculates over her possessions. Erik apologizes and explains to Ashley that, after breaking up with Tracy, he has not ejaculated in four months, masturbation being a taboo on his house because of a previous incident. Meanwhile, Cooze falls in love with Ashley's roommate Denise; however, she is nervous to show him her genitalia and have sex with him, so she instead gives Cooze a handjob. After talking with Erik, Bobby, and Dwight about Denise, Cooze develops suspicions that Denise might have a penis, so Dwight encourages Cooze to find out.
Alongside two other pledges, Erik, Cooze, and Bobby complete fifty tasks to pledge the Beta House, including getting their posteriors signed by a stripper, having sex with a professor, marrying a fellow pledger in Canada and placing a live ostrich in the Geek House. During the course of these, the Beta House members are banned from the Silver Dollar, their favorite strip club and bar, after the Geek House buys the locale. After they complete their final task (stealing something from the Geek House), Edgar, the president of the Geek House, challenges the Beta House to the Greek Olympiad, with the winners taking the losers' House. Before the competition starts, Dwight learns from Rock that previously, while attempting to join the midget fraternity, Edgar had sex with a sheep.
Being the Olympiad's last winner, Beta House alumnus Noah Levenstein returns to campus to officiate the competition. The first game is won by Beta House as Dwight and Edgar compete in removing girls' brassieres. Geek House win the next three matches: a pugil bout turned lightsaber duel, catching a greased pig, and a two-person "69" race. Beta House wins the fifth and sixth competitions: a Russian roulette challenge between Dwight and Edgar with aged horse semen; and a beer drinking competition between all members of both Houses ultimately won by Wesley via a keg stand
During the final striptease challenge, Beta House uses Edgar's wool fetish against him with Margie wearing a sheep costume, resulting in the Geek House losing the Greek Olympiad. Having won the Geek House mansion as well as its members, the Beta House hosts a toga party, while Erik comes up with the idea of a new pledge task for the Beta House: having sex in a movie theater, and he does so with Ashley in a makeshift one in his room. Meanwhile, Cooze and Denise finally sleep together, and Cooze discovers that what Denise was actually hiding was the fact that she ejaculates during sex, much to his excitement.
The following morning, Wesley wakes up after a blackout and discovers that he had sex with the Geek House female bodybuilder. In a post-credits scene, Edgar instructs a stripper at the Silver Dollar to dance with the headpiece of the sheep costume.
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Directed by | Andrew Waller |
Produced by | W. K. Border |
Written by | Erik Lindsay |
Based on | Characters by Adam Herz |
Starring | John White Steve Talley Christopher McDonald Eugene Levy |
Music by | Jeff Cardoni |
Cinematography | Gerald Packer |
Edited by | Rod Dean Andrew Somers |
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Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release dates
| December 26, 2007 |
Running time
| 87 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | less than $10 million[1] |
Box office | $18,610,260[2] |