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Dinner for Schmucks
Directed by
Jay Roach
PG-13
2010
1h 54m
Comedy
5.9
42%
42%
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After he finds out that his work superiors host a dinner celebrating the idiocy of their special guests, a rising executive questions the merits of his invitation just as he befriends a man who would be the perfect guest.
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Cast of Dinner for Schmucks
Paul Rudd
Tim Conrad
Steve Carell
Barry
Stephanie Szostak
Julie
Jemaine Clement
Kieran Vollard
Zach Galifianakis
Therman
Lucy Punch
Darla
Bruce Greenwood
Lance Fender
David Walliams
Müeller
Ron Livingston
Caldwell
Larry Wilmore
Williams
Kristen Schaal
Susana
P.J. Byrne
Davenport
Andrea Savage
Robin
Nick Kroll
Josh
Randall Park
Henderson
Lucy Davenport
Birgit
Chris O'Dowd
Marco
Jeff Dunham
Lewis the Ventriloquist
Octavia Spencer
Madame Nora
Patrick Fischler
Vincenzo
Rick Overton
Chuck
Eric Winzenried
Patrick
Nicole LaLiberte
Christina - Bird Girl
Maria Zyrianova
Monique - Bird Girl
Alex Borstein
Red Hair Woman (uncredited)
Blanca Soto
Catherine (uncredited)
Dinner for Schmucks Ratings & Reviews
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February 8, 2025
Dinner for Schmucks is a charming film, from a book/play by the author of "The Birdcage" and it shares some features with that work. The story progresses in an unpredictable way, and the dinner at the end is the final climax, after a lot of scene-setting and information about the characters being laid out before the viewer. Steve Carell's character is child-like in his simplicity and Paul Rudd's character deals with him in a believable way, so they are both likeable. The film poses the question, "Who are the idiots here?" and it may seem that being rich and/or successful makes a person immune from that title. Some of the jokes are quite funny and some are a little obvious (even coarse). Don't expect too many "laugh out loud" moments. However, I watched this film twice (quite close together) and I enjoyed it as much the second time around.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Pure, tasteless slapstick silliness with little on its mind beyond cheap yuks.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Dinner for Schmucks may be as broad as the proverbial groaning board, but Rudd and Carell bring out its most toothsome delights.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
The movie has a slew of goofball moments that don't add up to a consistently hilarious outing.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Veber's comic conceit, which stopped short of actually showing the dinner, doesn't really cross the Atlantic intact.
Shockya.com
Perri Nemiroff
Serves up big time when it comes to novelty; it's the humor that's on the sour side.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
It is a whoa of anger and frustration. A whoa bordering on shocking hysteria at how people so amazingly talented could come together and produce something of such colossal waste.
Movieline
Stephanie Zacharek
Ambles along waywardly for the first half hour before losing steam altogether.
Movie Retriever
Brian Tallerico
The blend of styles with Rudd's everyman realism, Roach's pedestrian visual sense, and the script's "wacky" humor results in a stew of a comedy in which the divergent ingredients never gel into one coherent movie dish.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Dinner With Schmucks may actually be the funniest movie currently in the marketplace -- but that's pretty much by default.
TIME Magazine
Richard Corliss
This may not be the highest achievement of the director's art -- to exceed minimal expectations -- but it's an honorable one, and Roach makes the grade.
Wall Street Journal
John Anderson
The point of the movie is how miserable Tim's life is made by Barry, and audiences will know exactly how he feels.
eye WEEKLY
Adam Nayman
Rudd has mastered the role of the tetchy mensch. He's a straight-man foil with the slightly crooked delivery.
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Where the French leads were nasty, Steve Carell and Paul Rudd have an inherently likable quality even when playing a foolish sap and a cutthroat businessman.
Dallas Morning News
Christopher Kelly
It's lurching, desperate and borderline incomprehensible -- a movie whose characters act according to no known precept of recognizable human behavior.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
All the disorderly or anarchistic possibilities of its premise get channeled back toward a message of symbolic pseudo-redemption, which is what Hollywood movies have to deliver at all costs.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Jay Roach has cast his picture with standout comic talents...
Slant Magazine
Simon Abrams
Dinner for Schmucks is the type of fatuous American comedy that hopes you'll excuse its narrative's logical inadequacies because it's just a comedy, stoopid.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
It's funny from the beginning, and it stays funny, even as it beats scenes to death and overstays its welcome.
Beliefnet
Nell Minow
Despite Carell's best efforts, Barry is not a character. He is just an engine for creating humiliating experiences for Tim.
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