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Dik Trom

2010 · 86 min

A cheerful, silly underdog story about being yourself, with broad humour and a warm heart.

Directed by
Arne Toonen
Genres
Family
Overview
Fat adolescent Dik Trom enjoys growing up in a hedonistic town devoted to food and fun. When a restaurant chain offers his father the life-long-dreamed opportunity to run his own, the Trom family moves. Their new home town Dunhoven is however inhabited by health freaks who prefer only fitness to dietary sobriety.

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Directed by
Arne Toonen
Genres
Family
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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • family
  • friendship
  • coming-of-age
  • loyalty
Places
  • small town
  • school
Era
contemporary
Audience
family
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror0
Humour7
Realism6
Romance3
Tension3
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight4

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Genres
family
Directed by
Arne Toonen
Written by
Luuk van Bemmelen, Mischa Alexander, Wijo Koek
Starring
Michael Nierse, Eva van der Gucht, Marcel Musters, Fiona Livingston, Nils Verkooijen, Thijs Römer, Loes Haverkort, Julien van Soest
Runtime
86 min
Country
Netherlands
Languages
Dutch

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