The Dinner Game(1998)
A feast for the senseless.
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...
Movie: The Dinner Game
Top 10 Billed Cast
François Pignon
Pierre Brochant
Juste Leblanc
Lucien Cheval
Christine Brochant
Marlène Sasseur
Jean Cordier
Doctor Sorbier
Bichaud, first animator
Third animator
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