He impresses his boss (Bruce Greenwood), but finds his future dependent upon a regular party where the firm’s top wunderkind underlings compete for attention by inviting foolish, socially clueless guests to ridicule.
Sensing a chance to cement his future with his girlfriend Julie (Stephanie Szostak), financial manager Tim Conrad (Rudd) makes a play for a big promotion at work. Carell’s other straight comedies have typically pulled in just over one-third of their worldwide haul overseas, but some recognisable international faces and the film’s broad premise may help push this Dinner a bit past low- to mid-eight figure grosses abroad.
#Mousterpiece dinner for schmucks movie#
Some mildly amusing character work and colourful detail gets largely lost in a movie that can’t decide whether it wants to be sour or sweet.Ĭarell, who has elevated blithe, unblinking idiocy into its own special art form on the small screen in The Office, crafts another believably imbecilic character.ĭinner for Schmucks should win the weekend, having the live-action comedy audience to itself for just a week before The Other Guys opens.
French filmmaker Francis Veber’s works have long proven ripe for Hollywood adaptation, and his 1999 comedy The Dinner Game provides the source material underpinning for the odd-couple farce Dinner for Schmucks, which reunites The 40-Year-Old Virgin stars Steve Carell and Paul Rudd to generally underwhelming effect.
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