The Dinner Club (2010)

Original title

De Eetclub

Directed by

Robert Jan Westdijk

Genre

thriller, crime

Country

Netherlands

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

12

Rating

5.2 of 10 from 33 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman moves with her family to a wealthy neighborhood and is invited to a local dining club. The dinners begin to reveal uncomfortable secrets and tensions among the members.

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What happens

The Dinner Club (Dutch: De eetclub) is a 2010 Dutch thriller film directed by Robert Jan Westdijk from a script he co-wrote with Marjan Lammers based on the novel of The Same Name by Saskia Noort. The film stars were Bracha van Doesburgh, Thom Hoffman, Angela Schijf, Mark van Eeuwen, Halina Reijn, Peter Paul Muller, and Birgit Schuurman. It follows a woman who moved with her family to an affluent neighborhood, where she is invited to join a dining club. Following the success of The Dark House, several other Noort novels were optioned for adaptations which included the Dinner Club. The filming took place in 2010 around Aerdenhout and Renkum. The film was released in Dutch theaters on 25 November 2010. It received generally negative reviews from critics, but received a Golden Film for having at least 100,000 visitors at the box office. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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