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The Dinner Club (2010)

The Dinner Club poster
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
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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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