The Foot Fist Way

A new hero of martial arts rises from a North Carolina strip mall in this independent comedy. Fred Simmons is one of the world's most gifted practitioners of the Korean fighting style known as Taekwondo -- or at least that's what he likes to tell people. Despite his supposed skills, Fred teaches ...more

"I'm so hungry I could eat a grown man's ass," bellows Fred Simmons, an impeccably hilarious Danny McBride, early on in The Foot Fist Way. It's that reckless crass that characterizes Fred and makes The Foot Fist Way a quirky, crude, and witty comedy. In fact, the film thoroughly plays up Fred's tactlessness, but he never comes off as mean or unlikable. Rather, Fred's the innocent Southern jackass that loves martial arts first and his two-timing wife second. He's a simple man with a ...more

A new hero of martial arts rises from a North Carolina strip mall in this independent comedy. Fred Simmons is one of the world's most gifted practitioners of the Korean fighting style known as Taekwondo -- or at least that's what he likes to tell people. Despite his supposed skills, Fred teaches students out of a shabby dojo, where for the most part, he browbeats kids into learning the aggressive points of the martial arts without having much understanding of the philosophy or reasoning behind ...more