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Dinner for Schmucks (2010)

Dinner for Schmucks poster
Directed by
Jay Roach
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 54m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 1,951 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A rising executive learns that his bosses host a dinner where they mock the guests for being idiots. He befriends a strange man who would be the perfect guest and then questions whether he should attend the dinner.

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What happens

Dinner for Schmucks is a 2010 American comedy film directed by Jay Roach and based on Francis Veber's 1998 French film Le Dîner de Cons. Starring Steve Carell and Paul Rudd, with Jemaine Clement, Jeff Dunham, Bruce Greenwood, and Ron Livingston in supporting roles, the film tells the story of a rising executive who finds out that his work superiors host a dinner celebrating the idiocy of their guests. He questions it when he is invited, just as he befriends a man who would be the perfect guest. Dinner for Schmucks was released in theaters on July 30, 2010, by Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures and grossed $86.9 million against a $69 million budget. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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