The Dinner Game

Name: The Dinner Game
Genre: Comedy
Released: June 25, 1999
Duration: 80 min
Rating: 73
Cast: Jacques Villeret, Thierry Lhermitte

1999

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THE DINNER GAME

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Movie Details & Credits

Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment | Release Date: June 25, 1999

Starring: Jacques Villeret, Thierry Lhermitte

Summary: A group of friends holds a competition each week to see who can bring the most idiotic guests to dinner.

Director: Francis Veber

Genre(s): Comedy

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 80 min

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38	#38 Best Movie of 1999

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The Globe and Mail (Toronto) - Ray Conlogue

It's a long time since I've heard a press screening audience applaud a foreign film, but then it's a long time since a French movie has been as funny as The Dinner Game. Read full review

Film Threat - Anthony Miele

Easily the funniest and most charming film that has been or will be released in 1999 -- period. Read full review

Film Threat - Merle Bertrand

Just a plain old fun movie. Read full review

San Francisco Examiner - Wesley Morris

A featherweight parlor-room French farce in need of an anchor to keep it from being blown away by the summer blockbuster gales. Read full review

The A.V. Club - Scott Tobias

Adapted from a long-running stage play, The Dinner Game has been refined to peak comic efficiency, with every misunderstanding and hare-brained scheme neatly cascading into bigger and bigger catastrophes. Read full review

Newsweek - Andrea C. Basora

Manages to maintain its humor and energy until the final scene. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine - Maitland McDonagh

This stage-bound farce could easily be an American sitcom: It's all slamming doors, eavesdropping and stupid miscommunications, garnished with a heavy-handed helping of comedy of humiliation. Read full review

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Roeyl

Dec 28, 2010

My, it was fun!! Explosive jokes, good actors and epic plot and screenplay, it sure deserves a better rating than this. I also think that some of these American reviews missed most of the jokes, it's definitively better if you're French because of the different culture.

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Negzel

Jun 18, 2015

Simple, plain and funny. It is a perfect classic comedy. Just perfect... Briefly, high-class people get together for a dinner once a month, and everyone must attend the dinner with his "stupid." Only this time, the game will not be played by their rules. Nonstop laughs, guaranteed.

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LenR.

May 5, 2007

Belly laughs, can't ask for more in a comedy.

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[Anonymous]

Jan 27, 2006

This is a terrific, funny French film that basically mocks idiots. At times annoying how stupid the characters are but it is sure to become a classic. It sort of reminds me of "It's a Mad Mad World" for some reason. 8 out of 10!

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