Le Dîner de cons

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Le Dîner de cons

Directed by	Francis Veber
Produced by	Francis Veber
Written by	Francis Veber
Starring	Thierry Lhermitte Jacques Villeret
Distributed by	Gaumont
Release date(s)	15 April 1998
Running time	87 min
Language	French
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Le Dîner de cons (French : The Dinner of Idiots ; international English title : The Dinner Game) is a French film directed by Francis Veber that was released in 1998. It is a cinema adaptation of the theater play of the same name.

1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Trivia
4 Awards
5 External links

[edit] Plot

Pierre Brochant (Thierry Lhermitte), a famous Parisian publisher, attends a weekly "idiots' dinner", where guests, who are prominent Parisian businessmen (and therefore, it is implied, intelligent), must each bring along an "idiot" of whom the other invitees can make fun. At the end of the dinner, the evening's champion idiot is selected. Pierre Brochant manages, with the help of an "idiot scout", to find an exceptional idiot: François Pignon, a Finance Ministry employee who is crazy about building replicas with matchsticks. Things start to go haywire when Brochant's wife leaves him shortly after François Pignon arrives at his apartment. His constant mistakes add humour to the film, especially when he brings in his friend, a tax auditor, who makes an unpleasant discovery about his own wife. It is easy to pity both of the main characters, M. Pignon for being made fun of and used in such a cruel way, and M. Brochant for being left by his wife, constantly badgered by the guest who will not leave, threatened with auditing for tax evasion, and suffering from a wrenched back. M. Pignon tries to make up for all his wrongdoings by calling Mr. Brochant's wife, who got into a car accident after leaving the apartment, but after apparently remedying the problem messes up yet again.

[edit] Cast

Jacques Villeret : François Pignon
Thierry Lhermitte : Pierre Brochant
Francis Huster : Juste Leblanc
Alexandra Vandernoot : Christine Brochant
Daniel Prévost: Lucien Cheval
Catherine Frot: Marlène Sasseur
Edgar Givry : Jean Cordier
Christian Pereira: Le docteur Sorbier
Pétronille Moss : Mademoiselle Blond

[edit] Trivia

This film has been remade in Hindi as Bheja Fry (2007).

After long-time rumours of an American remake starring Robin Williams, a remake, called Dinner For Schmucks, starring Sacha Baron Cohen, is eventually scheduled for 2009.^[1]