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The Dinner Game

1998 · 80 min

A tightly wound farce where escalating misunderstandings and a well-meaning fool dismantle a smug man's life, leaving you laughing and oddly moved.

Tagline: A feast for the senseless.
Overview: 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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Tone: absurdstrength 3 of 3
satiricalstrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
lightstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: class
betrayal
friendship
identity
redemption
Places: big city
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild

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Action	1
Horror	0
Humour	8
Realism	7
Romance	3
Tension	4
Darkness	3
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	4

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Genres: comedy
Directed by: Francis Veber
Written by: Francis Veber
Starring: Jacques Villeret, Thierry Lhermitte, Francis Huster, Daniel Prévost, Alexandra Vandernoot, Catherine Frot, Edgar Givry, Christian Pereira
Music: Vladimir Cosma
Cinematography: Luciano Tovoli
Runtime: 80 min
Country: France
Languages: French

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