The Dinner Game

Francis Veber wrote and directed this film adaptation (with animated opening credits) of his own play, Le diner de cons, about a competition among a group of friends to see who can find the stupidest person to bring to dinner (as indicated by the original French title, since "con" means someone ...more

Comedies which rely on persons of limited intelligence to generate laughs range from the sublime (the work of Laurel and Hardy) to the questionable (Dumb and Dumber). In the case of Francis Veber's The Dinner Game, the laughs are on the allegedly intelligent and cultured Pierre Brochant (Thierry Lhermitte), and not at the expense of the dimwitted Francois Pignon (Jacques Villeret). Francois is the innocent victim of an elaborate joke Pierre and his friends play, but when Pierre finds himself in ...more