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The Dinner Game (1998)
★ 7.8 · 2,057 ratings on TMDB
A feast for the senseless.
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...
DirectorFrancis Veber
CastAlexandra Vandernoot, Benoît Bellal, Catherine Frot, Christian Pereira, Daniel Prévost, Edgar Givry
GenresComedy
The emergence reading
The Dinner Game keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
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