The Dinner Game (1998)
Directed by Francis Veber
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!”. 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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What critics compared The Dinner Game to
A popular reference I’ve seen pointed out is Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967), though I would update its mention by acknowledging The Dinner Game (1998) in the same breath.
The hero of his new movie, “The Valet,” is named François Pignon, but then so was the hero of other Veber films, including “The Dinner Game” (1998) and “The Closet” (2001).
As far as technical prowess goes, one could do a lot worse than a campy evening of entertainment than The Bye Bye Man , although this is a far cry from Title’s most prolific offering, 1995’s Cameron Diaz headlined The Last Supper , a black comedy about a group of friends who invite people over and based on the interaction, decide whether to poison them and use them as fertilizer for the tomatoes or let them live (it also sounds like the more relevant English language version of France’s The Dinner Game ).