Le dîner de cons [Audio: French]
A few friends have a weekly fools' dinner, where each brings a fool along. Pierre finds a champion fool for next dinner. Surprise.
December 8, 1947 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
19 September 1965, Brussels, Belgium
February 6, 1951 in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France
May 1, 1956 in Paris, France
9 August 1953
May 13, 1948 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
October 21, 2019
One of the best of the crop of new movies, The Dinner Game, is a telling assault on the ironic sensibility.
January 16, 2007
Its very tautness and on-the-money performances from the odd-coupled Jacques Villeret and Thierry Lhermitte help make this a highly amusing and old-fashioned big-screen entertainment.
January 14, 2008
Some realist nuances in the characters' behavior become more intriguing than the belabored humor.
December 06, 2005
Easily the funniest and most charming film that has been or will be released in 1999 ... period.
February 11, 2006
The leads fill out their archetypes comfortably, the timing's well pitched, and the narrative moves busily enough. Cinematically, though, there's little of interest.
January 14, 2008
Despite the stagey set-up (it was originally conceived as a play and it shows), the film manages to maintain its humor and energy until the final scene in which Veber suddenly casts aside his delightful meanspiritedness and gets soft-hearted and preachy.
February 21, 2004
On its own terms, it's an idiot's delight.
April 27, 2007
A sip of sparkling champagne in a moviegoing summer of mostly cheap red wine for teenage winos.
January 14, 2008
Scared of sophisticated French cinema? This coarse comedy will restore your confidence.
December 06, 2005
An idiot is exactly what you'll be if you don't check out The Dinner Game.
January 14, 2008
Weaves a simple premise into comedy gold.
May 26, 2006
If you don't like this type of movie to begin with (I don't), you won't be converted this time around.

