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Only Decent People

2012 · 90 min

A cringe-inducing comedy of manners that skewers pretension with uncomfortable honesty and a bittersweet edge.

Directed by
Lodewijk Crijns
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Starring
Géza Weisz, Imanuelle Grives, Jeroen Krabbé
Overview
David Samuels is from an intellectual Jewish family from the posh Amsterdam Old South. He is also a man on a mission: to find a fabulous ghetto-queen with great tits and thick buttocks. His parents and friends declare him mad, but David continues unabated.

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In the UKNo streaming, rental or purchase options known.
Directed by
Lodewijk Crijns
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Starring
Géza Weisz, Imanuelle Grives, Jeroen Krabbé
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Tone
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • class
  • family
  • obsession
  • race
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language strong
  • Violence mild
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour7
Realism7
Romance4
Tension3
Darkness5
Complexity5
Emotional weight5

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Genres
comedy, drama
Directed by
Lodewijk Crijns
Written by
Lodewijk Crijns
Starring
Géza Weisz, Imanuelle Grives, Jeroen Krabbé, Annet Malherbe, Sigrid ten Napel, Belinda van der Stoep, Hans Croiset, Maurits Delchot
Cinematography
Menno Westendorp
Runtime
90 min
Country
Netherlands
Languages
Dutch

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