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The Dinner Game. Every Wednesday, French editor Pierre Brochant (Thierry Lhermitte) and some of his friends organize a very special dinner: a "dîner de cons" (Literally: "Dinner of shmucks"), where whoever brings the dumbest guest wins. Desperate to find a suitable candidate for the week, Brochant invites a friend's recommendation: François ...
The Dinner Game (French: Le Dîner de Cons|link=no, in French pronounced as /lə dine d (ə) kɔ̃/; literally Dinner of Fools) [4] is a 1998 French comedy film written and directed by Francis Veber, adapted from his play Le Dîner de Cons. It became that year's top-grossing French film at the French box office (second overall behind Titanic).
The Dinner Game ★★ Le Diner de Cons 1998 (PG-13) Smug publisher Pierre (Lhermitte) dines weekly with equally smug friends, their entertainment being to see who can bring the biggest fool as a dinner guest. This nasty joke gets the turnabout it deserves when Pierre intends to bring bumbling Francois (Villeret) to the party, only to have the ...
The Dinner Game arrives from France armed with Cesar (French Academy) awards and the reputation of its writer/director, Francis Verber, who has made a career out of his participation in multiple versions of La Cage aux Folles and a bunch of lesser comedies. Interestingly, four of Veber’s other French comedy films were remade in English language versions, indicating a perception in Hollywood ...
Watch The Dinner Game on iTunes (http://apple.co/1WnQiH7) and Amazon (http://amzn.to/UoV8WY)When Pierre decided to play a game to see who could bring the big...
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Trivia. YMMV. Create Subpage. Hype Backlash: A specific variation. Francis Veber had written movies featuring a character named François Pignon for nearly 30 years (starting in 1973 with L'Emmerdeur, where Belgian singer Jacques Brel played the part). This movie, however, easily was his most successful both commercially and critically.
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 ...
