Mealtime Mayhem!

Whether you celebrate thanksgiving or any other festivities, you’re sure to experience some crazy mealtimes this holiday season. Outrageous guests, disastrous dishes, and unexpected twists abound at this time of year. Read on for a selection of films to reassure you that yours aren’t so bad after all… or cheer you up if they really are!

The Dinner Game (Le Dinner de Cons) is a hilarious and outrageous comedy about a group of well to do Parisians who engage in a rather awful dinner game: they each bring an unsuspecting ‘idiot’ to their weekly dinner parties. At the end of the dinner, when the guests of honor have departed, the evening's "champion idiot" is selected. One week however, Pierre Brochant, aspiring master of the game, bites off more than he can chew when he is forced to rely on his idiot after injuring his back… A smash hit in France on it’s release, it was remade as ‘Dinner for Schmucks’ in 2010 with Steve Carrel and Paul Rudd. 

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Comedy legend Louis De Funès plays Septime, the despotic owner of a high class Paris restaurant in What's Cooking in Paris. When a foreign president disappears in the middle of Septime's grand number of lighting fire to a fancy dessert, he finds himself in an escalating drama. The police suspect him, a revolutionary group from the missing president's country is after him, and the president's entourage blames him. Everyone is looking for the president, and a terrified Septime is tasked with finding him!

See this Louis de Funès at his hilarious best in this classic comedy on iTunes and Amazon

When, over dinner, Vincent tells his friends and family he plans to name his child ‘Adolf’ all hell breaks loose! Raising heated debate among the guests about the association with Hitler, and in turn revealing a lot more about the guests than they bargained for. New York Times Critics Pick on it’s theatrical release in the US, What's in a Name? has a 75% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes with critics calling it ‘delightful, full of ribald humor, and compelling, intelligent debate’ (Village Voice) with it’s ‘verbal jousting elevated to a blood sport’ (New York Times). Smart, witty, and fast paced, this is modern French Comedy at it’s best.

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