The Dinner Game
A feast for the senseless.
A feast for the senseless.
Comedy
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1998
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For Pierre Brochant and his friends, Wednesday is “Idiots' Day”. The idea is simple: each person has to bring along an idiot. The one who brings the most spectacular idiot wins the prize. Tonight, Brochant is ecstatic. He has found a gem. The ultimate idiot, “A world champion idiot!”. What Brochant doesn’t know is that Pignon is a real jinx, a past master in the art of bringing on catastrophes...
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Rated:
PG-13
Runtime:
80 min
Release date:
15 Apr 1998
Country:
FR
Languages:
French
Budget:
$12,500,000
Revenue:
$78,599,508
Awards:
5 wins & 4 nominations
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
On its own terms, it's an idiot's delight.
– Eleanor Ringel Gillespie,
Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
21 Feb 2004
fresh:
A sip of sparkling champagne in a moviegoing summer of mostly cheap red wine for teenage winos.
– Andrew Sarris,
New York Observer,
27 Apr 2007
fresh:
Some realist nuances in the characters' behavior become more intriguing than the belabored humor.
– Lisa Alspector,
Chicago Reader,
14 Jan 2008
fresh:
Despite the stagey set-up (it was originally conceived as a play and it shows), the film manages to maintain its humor and energy until the final scene in which Veber suddenly casts aside his delightful meanspiritedness and gets soft-hearted and preachy.
– Andrea C. Basora,
Newsweek,
14 Jan 2008
fresh:
Weaves a simple premise into comedy gold.
– Lisa Nesselson,
Variety,
14 Jan 2008