The Dinner Game

Apr 15, 1998

1h 20m

★ 7.8

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...

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Gaumont

EFVE

TPS Cinéma

TF1 Films Production

The Dinner Game Trailers

Cast

François Pignon

Jacques Villeret

Pierre Brochant

Thierry Lhermitte

Juste Leblanc

Francis Huster

Lucien Cheval

Daniel Prévost

Christine Brochant

Alexandra Vandernoot

Marlène Sasseur

Catherine Frot

Jean Cordier

Edgar Givry

Doctor Sorbier

Christian Pereira

Bichaud, first animator

Benoît Bellal

Third animator

Jacques Bleu

Boomerang enthusiast guest

Philippe Brigaud

Guest

Michel Caccia

2021. After spending a year in confinement, a group of high school students and their two teachers begin an end-of-year trip to Mallorca. This great plan is the last opportunity they have to all be together, make up for lost time, be able to have fun like they have never had before and say goodbye to this crazy stage of their lives. However, a new coronavirus outbreak disrupts all their plans and forces them to stay locked in their hotel rooms. More than 50 students, 2 teachers, a hotel and many, many minibars... What could go wrong?

4.7

Waltz Me Around

Feb 22, 1920

Snub, the delivery man, and his assistant, Sunny, are returning from a delivery when they almost run over a lost woman. After she asks for directions, they accompany the woman to a dance school, where Snub is mistaken for the new professor.

5.5

The First Temptation of Christ

Dec 3, 2019

Jesus, who's hitting the big 3-0, brings a surprise guest to meet the family. A Christmas special so wrong it must be from comedians Porta dos Fundos.

0.0

Opening Night

May 9, 2023

Tensions mount on the off-Broadway opening of JFK: The Musical, when Aaron, the actor playing JFK, and Simone, the assistant stage manager find the corpse of a cast member in a storage closet and the two clash over if the show should go on or not.

0.0

Something's More Than One Thing

Apr 1, 2025

To save their relationship, a young couple dive down a rabbit hole of conflicting internet advice.

7.4

Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra

Jan 30, 2002

History's favorite Gauls assist Queen Cleopatra when she wagers that the Egyptian people can build a palace for Julius Caesar in just three months.

8.0

Big Jay Oakerson: Them

Feb 20, 2025

Part 1 of Big Jay Oakerson's two-part crowd work comedy special, filmed live in Denver at Comedy Works.

6.8

The Taste of Others

Mar 1, 2000

Unpolished and ultra-pragmatic industrialist Jean-Jacques Castella reluctantly attends Racine's tragedy "Berenice" in order to see his niece play a bit part. He is taken with the play's strangely familiar-looking leading lady Clara Devaux. During the course of the show, Castella soon remembers that he once hired and then promptly fired the actress as an English language tutor. He immediately goes out and signs up for language lessons. Thinking that he is nothing but an ill-tempered philistine with bad taste, Clara rejects him until Castella charms her off her feet.

5.3

Kangaroo Jack

Jan 17, 2003

Two childhood friends — a New York hairstylist and a wanna-be musician — get mixed-up with the mob and are forced to deliver $50,000 to Australia, but things go all wrong when the money is lost to a wild kangaroo.

4.3

Free Time

Mar 22, 2024

Drew is approaching the end of his twenties and, with it, his relative youth. Looking to make a sudden change, he decides to quit his cushy desk job and “embrace life.” Cycling quickly through friends, hobbies, and goals, it’s not long until Drew realizes he has no idea what to do with his newfound freedom.

0.0

Clean House

Mar 17, 2025

On an ordinary day off, a man starts his day by cleaning his room as usual. But when he tries to sweep up the dust, he finds that it won't go into the dustpan as expected. He then tries every possible way to make sure the room is spotless.

7.3

The Twelve Tasks of Asterix

Jun 26, 1976

Asterix and Obelix depart on an adventure to complete twelve impossible tasks to prove to Caesar that they are as strong as the Gods. You'll roar with laughter as they outwit, outrun, and generally outrage the very people who are trying to prove them "only human".

0.0

We Could Be Nemeses

Mar 16, 2025

A lonely supervillain falls for the superhero that arrives to stop his latest scheme. With the help of his best pirate friend the villain sets out to win the hero’s heart.

5.6

Tit for Tat

Nov 3, 1984

Fun adventures of a taxi driver and his passenger, a broken financial genius.

8.0

Kitman

Jun 12, 2021

Curiosity kills when a world-renowned hitman faces his greatest adversary yet.

5.7

Life Stinks

Jun 5, 1991

Affluent and arrogant businessman Goddard Bolt, feuding with rival Vance Crasswell over a land deal, makes a bet with Crasswell that he has the wits and street smarts to live penniless and anonymous on the rough streets of Los Angeles for thirty days. But Bolt has a rude awakening when the reality of homelessness hits him. Still, he finds a silver lining in a burgeoning romance with Molly, a former Broadway dancer who has fallen on hard times.

7.4

Train of Life

Sep 16, 1998

In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to Palestine.