The Dinner Game
Synopsis
For Pierre Brochant and his friends, Wednesday is “Idiots' Day”. The idea is simple: each person has to bring along an idiot. The one who brings the most spectacular idiot wins the prize. Tonight, Brochant is ecstatic. He has found a gem. The ultimate idiot. “A world champion idiot!” Meet François Pignon, a lowly accountant at the Finance Ministry, a man devoted to his constructions made of match sticks... What Brochant doesn’t know is that Pignon is a real jinx, a past master in the art of bringing on catastrophes...
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Director (1)
Actors (18)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Gaumont
- Co-productions : TF1 Films Production, Efve Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : Gaumont
- French distribution : Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International (ex-Buena Vista International France)
Full credits (24)
- Executive Producer : Alain Poiré
- Screenwriter : Francis Veber
- Director of Photography : Luciano Tovoli
- Music Composer : Vladimir Cosma
- Assistant directors : Laurent Petrelli, Bernard Seitz
- Editor : Georges Klotz
- Sound Recordist : Bernard Bats
- Costume designers : Jacqueline Bouchard, Aurore Vicente
- Author of original work : Francis Veber
- Voice : Daniel Russo
- Sound Assistant : Pierre-Yves Bruneel
- Assistant Operators : Sébastien Pentecouteau, Dominique Delguste
- Camera operator : Sabine Lancelin
- Production managers : Henri Brichetti, Pierre D'Hoffelize
- Press Attaché (film) : Dominique Segall
- Sound editors : Thomas Desjonquères, Jean Gargonne
- Assistant editor : Viviane Gourvest
- Continuity supervisor : Laurence Lemaire
- Production Designer : Hugues Tissandier
- Foley artists : Pascal Chauvin, Pascal Dedeye
- Stunt performers : Jean-Claude Lagniez, Olivier Vitrant
- Casting : Françoise Menidrey
- Sound Mixer : Bruno Tarrière
- Still Photographer : David Koskas
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Comedy
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Yes
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1998
- French release : 15/04/1998
- Runtime : 1 h 22 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 83.345
- Visa issue date : 06/03/1998
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : CinemaScope
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About
Some directors pick an atmosphere and a situation and tally ho, off we go! They are open to improvisation — even encourage it — and discover what they wrote on set. It wasn’t like that at all. As Francis is both writer and director, he has the exact music of what he has written in his head and he makes sure that is exactly what he gets. This isn’t the kind of film where we improvise as the mood takes us. Oh, no! Here we’re serving a script that’s down on paper, right down to the last comma. (Thierry Lhermitte - from an article in “Ciné Live”, April 1998)
