Official Movie Website Theatrical Release 07/30./2010 Home Video Not Available MPAA Rating Rated PG-13 for sequences of crude and sexual content, some partial nudity and language Running Time 110 Minutes Genre Comedy Director Jay Roach Writer Andy Borowitz, Ken Daurio, David Guion, Michael Handelman, Cinco Paul, Francis Veber, Jon Vitti Cast Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Lucy Punch, Zach Galifianakis, Stephanie Szostak, Bruce Greenwood, David Walliams, Octavia Spencer, Ron Livingston, Larry Wilmore, Andrea Savage Studio Paramount Pictures |
DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS (2010)
SYNOPSIS
The comedy, “Dinner for Schmucks,” tells the story of
Tim (Paul Rudd), an up-and-coming executive who has
just received his first invitation to the “dinner for idiots”
– a monthly event hosted by his boss, which promises
bragging rights (and maybe more) to the exec who
shows up with the biggest buffoon. Tim's girlfriend,
Julie (Stephanie Szostak), finds it distasteful and Tim
agrees to skip the dinner, until he bumps into Barry
(Steve Carell) an IRS employee who devotes his spare
time to building elaborate taxidermy mouse dioramas –
and quickly realizes he's struck idiot gold. Tim can't
resist, and invites Barry, whose blundering good
intentions soon send Tim's life into a frenzied
downward spiral and a series of comic misadventures,
threatening a major business deal, bringing a crazy
stalker ex-girlfriend, Darla (Lucy Punch), back into
Tim's life and driving Julie (or so Tim thinks) into the
arms of another man.
--© Paramount Pictures
The comedy, “Dinner for Schmucks,” tells the story of
Tim (Paul Rudd), an up-and-coming executive who has
just received his first invitation to the “dinner for idiots”
– a monthly event hosted by his boss, which promises
bragging rights (and maybe more) to the exec who
shows up with the biggest buffoon. Tim's girlfriend,
Julie (Stephanie Szostak), finds it distasteful and Tim
agrees to skip the dinner, until he bumps into Barry
(Steve Carell) an IRS employee who devotes his spare
time to building elaborate taxidermy mouse dioramas –
and quickly realizes he's struck idiot gold. Tim can't
resist, and invites Barry, whose blundering good
intentions soon send Tim's life into a frenzied
downward spiral and a series of comic misadventures,
threatening a major business deal, bringing a crazy
stalker ex-girlfriend, Darla (Lucy Punch), back into
Tim's life and driving Julie (or so Tim thinks) into the
arms of another man.
--© Paramount Pictures
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