Dinner for Schmucks
2010 film by Jay Roach
Dinner for Schmucks is a 2010 screwball comedy film, and a remake of the Francis Veber play The Dinner Game (Le dîner de cons). The film is directed by Jay Roach and written by David Guion and Michael Handelman. It stars Steve Carell and Paul Rudd, who had previously teamed up in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and The 40-Year-Old Virgin. It was released theatrically on July 30, 2010.
Quotes
edit- Müeller: It's my wife's favorite finger.
- Barry: In the words of John Lennon; you may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not...
- Tim: The only one...
- Barry: What?
- Tim: You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one... that's the lyric...
- Barry: Yeah. Okay, Tim...
- Barry: He's friends with Morgan Freeman!
- Darla: I'm a naughty schoolgirl!
- Barry: You look a little old to be a schoolgirl.
- Therman: I want you to say, "You can eat my pudding."
- Barry: Vincent Van Gogh. Everyone said to him, "You can't be a great painter, you only have one ear." And you know what he said? "I can't hear you."
- Barry: I know everything! I have laid eggs... *inside of your brain*!
- Therman: Get them out of my head!
- Barry: You are no longer in control of me! I control you, and you are under my power!
[whispering]
- Barry: I know everything. And I release you!
- Kieran: Have you ever lived among a herd of goats, for months at a time, as one of them?
- Barry: No.
- Kieran: That surprises me.
Cast
edit- Steve Carell as Barry Speck
- Paul Rudd as Timothy J. "Tim" Conrad
- Stephanie Szostak as Julie
- Jemaine Clement as Kieran Vollard
- Lucy Punch as Darla
- Zach Galifianakis as Therman Murch
- Bruce Greenwood as Lance Fender
- Ron Livingston as Caldwell
- Andrea Savage as Robin
- David Walliams as Mueller
- Rick Overton as The Beard Champion
- P. J. Byrne as Davenport
- Octavia Spencer as Madame Nora
- Alex Parlar as Santiago Pérez
- Jeff Dunham as Lewis / Debbie
- Chris O'Dowd as Marco (credited as "Christopher O'Dowd")
- Kristen Schaal as Susana
- Patrick Fischler as Vincenzo
- Randall Park as Henderson
- Larry Wilmore as Williams
- Alex Borstein as Martha (Barry's Wife / Therman's Girlfriend)
