Dinner for Schmucks

[size=100:oqyf7ezg]Synopsis:

"
Dinner For Schmucks"
tells the story of Tim (Paul Rudd), a guy on the verge of having it all. The only thing standing between him and and total career success is finding a guest to bring to his boss' annual Dinner For Extraordinary People, an event where the winner of the evening bring the most eccentric character as his guest. Enter Barry (Steve Carell), a guy with a passion for dressing up in tiny outfits to recreate great works of art. From Jay Roach, director of "
Meet The Parents"
and "
Meet The Fockers"
comes an unforgettable feast about two unlikely friends and one unforgettable dinner.

squidhat wrote:[align=center:re3b2nto]omg paul rudd steve carell and jemaine starring in the same movie?

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[size=133:8x7n294p]Steve Carell And Paul Rudd Serve Up An EXCLUSIVE First Look At 'Dinner For Shmucks'
Posted 12/16/09 5:30 pm ET by Adam Rosenberg in Hot Stuff, Video

[size=100:8x7n294p]One of the hot comedies to look forward to next summer is "
Dinner for Shmucks,"
the latest from "
Meet the Parents"
director Jay Roach. In today's episode of "
Behind the Screen,"
stars Steve Carell and Paul Rudd took MTV's Josh Horowitz behind the scenes for a look at how things are coming along. I could tell you what the movie's about, but why don't we let Carell and Rudd do that for me...

Click [url=here][/url] to watch video.

Amily wrote:VERY spoilery review of the script [url=here][/url].

Tells us a lot more about "
Kieran"

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Amily wrote:

[size=133:1vbzlzul]Steve Carell And Paul Rudd Serve Up An EXCLUSIVE First Look At 'Dinner For Shmucks'
Posted 12/16/09 5:30 pm ET by Adam Rosenberg in Hot Stuff, Video

[size=100:1vbzlzul]One of the hot comedies to look forward to next summer is "
Dinner for Shmucks,"
the latest from "
Meet the Parents"
director Jay Roach. In today's episode of "
Behind the Screen,"
stars Steve Carell and Paul Rudd took MTV's Josh Horowitz behind the scenes for a look at how things are coming along. I could tell you what the movie's about, but why don't we let Carell and Rudd do that for me...

Click [url=here][/url] to watch video.

Source:

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Le Dîner de Cons"
(The Dinner Game)

Dashan returned to the stage in the summer of 2007 alongside one of China's top comedians, Guo Donglin, in a Chinese adaptation of Le Dîner de Cons. The play launched on July 6 at the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre Theatre before touring across China through through the rest of 2007 and into 2008.

...

The Canadian performer, Dashan, is a true celebrity in China.

...

emira wrote:Ami, is the name Dashan any familiar to you?

gezyka wrote:[url=New trailer][/url]!

I didn't know Kristen was going to be in this!

[size=100:ijsqnkwf]Subject: Jemaine Clement

by canto39 (Fri Jan 22 2010 23:20:46)

I hope he plays one of the schmucks because he's great in that kind of role.

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by Cloudlink04 3 days ago (Fri Apr 2 2010 22:27:27)

He is hilarious in the film!!! Saw a screener on Wednesday.

gezyka wrote:[url=New trailer][/url]!

I didn't know Kristen was going to be in this!

ADD:

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[size=150:6h5da8xk]'Dinner For Schmucks' Director Says Stars Are 'Brilliant Improvisers'
[size=133:6h5da8xk]'I feel extremely lucky to get to work with them,' Jay Roach says of Steve Carell, Paul Rudd and more.

Apr 7 2010 6:31 PM EDT
By Larry Carroll


[size=100:6h5da8xk]LAS VEGAS — At this very moment, it's hard to find a hotter trailer on the Web than the one promoting "
Dinner for Schmucks,"
an offbeat comedy starring Steve Carell, Paul Rudd and Zach Galifianakis that is quickly rocketing up the ranks of must-see summer films. Lucky for us all, then, that we recently caught up with the film's director Jay Roach — who is ccertainly no schmuck when it comes to comedy.

"
Steve Carell and Paul Rudd are very funny guys;
I feel extremely lucky to get to work with them,"
grinned Roach, the hugely successful filmmaker behind the "
Meet the Parents"
and "
Austin Powers"
franchises. "
They're brilliant improvisers — we all know that from 'Anchorman.' "


A loose remake of the 1998 French comedy "
Le Diner de Cons,"
the July 23 film casts Rudd in the familiar role of the straight man, but bumps Carell to a level of sublime character silliness we haven't seen since the heyday of Brick Tamland.

"
Paul plays a character who gets a job, and the initiation into that job [if he wants] the promotion is that he is supposed to bring a special person, a guest, to dinner,"
Roach explained of the concept, which has other guests bringing eccentric ventriloquists, mind-readers and such to break bread for their amusement. "
The guests don't realize that they're being made fun of until afterwards."


Ultimately, the film goes beyond its laughs to make us explore our desire to be successful — and fear that such success could turn us into, well, jerks. "
It's a weird little convent of rich guys who do this weird dinner,"
Roach said of the meal for morons. "
Steve Carrell, who is a guest, turns [Rudd's] life upside-down and turns the dinner upside-down in a very funny way."


Asked for his favorite improvised scene of spontaneity, Roach pointed to a moment glimpsed in the new trailer. "
There's a scene at the end when they face off against Zach Galifianakis — Steve Carrell works for Zach, and Zach has stolen his wife,"
the director explained. "
Zach believes he has mind control.

"
So he gets Steve Carell in a trance — which of course only works because Steve Carell believes he's in a trance — and those three guys improvising off of each other was electric,"
Roach said of the film's comedic climax. "
There are about another dozen off-center characters around the table too, including a vulture trainer and a guy with a giant beard — it literally has swirls, he's a beard-competition guy. [There's also] a lady who talks to dead pets, and Jeff Dunham, the great ventriloquist, [plays a man] with a wife who is a puppet who's constantly trashing him.

"
I love it when the secondary characters come in and stir the pot in a new way, partway through the movie,"
he added. "
Jemaine Clement is in it too, from 'Flight of the Conchords,' and he's fantastic ... it's a table full of interesting, off-center people."

gezyka wrote:

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I love it when the secondary characters come in and stir the pot in a new way, partway through the movie,"
he added. "
Jemaine Clement is in it too, from 'Flight of the Conchords,' and he's fantastic ... it's a table full of interesting, off-center people."

[size=150:u6e92w5f]Exclusive First Look at 'Dinner for Schmucks'
* April 8, 2010
* By: Laura Prudom
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What do you get when you combine a blind swordsman, a pet psychic, a man with an epic beard, a flirtatious ventriloquist's dummy and a vulture with Steve Carell and Paul Rudd? The answer, if first impressions are to be believed, is a hilarious ensemble comedy from director Jay Roach, the man behind 'Meet the Parents' and the 'Austin Powers' trilogy.

'Dinner for Schmucks' -- undoubtedly in the running for catchiest title of 2010 – centers around Tim (Rudd), a hapless white-collar worker desperate to climb up the corporate ladder at Fender Financial. To get into his bosses' good graces, Tim agrees to attend a dinner party hosted by Fender (Bruce Greenwood) himself, wherein execs compete for bragging rights and coveted promotions by attempting to bring the biggest "
schmuck"
they can find as their guest. But Tim soon discovers that he may have bitten off more than he can chew by inviting Barry (Carell), an amateur taxidermist with a penchant for stuffed mice, to the soiree ...

Just before Christmas, Moviefone got the chance to visit Paramount Studios in Hollywood and explore the side-splitting (and sometimes surreal) set of 'Schmucks,' in addition to snagging some face time with the cast and crew -- as well as the aforementioned vulture.

"
Ah, Zulu the vulture,"
Rudd reflected fondly during a joint interview with Carell, a comment that preceded perhaps the strangest conversation in the history of set visit interviews.

"
You wanna tell them about the vulture flatulence problem?"
Carell whispered conspiratorially to his co-star, an offer which Rudd eagerly seized upon. "
Yeah, the vulture farted right in the middle of our scene,"
he revealed. "
And when you think about what caused it -- what does a vulture eat but dead stuff, and then it farts?"


"
It was disturbing,"
Carell agreed. "
It was a disturbing sound, because for a second we really didn't even know what it was. I don't even know how to describe it;
it was a release of air that I've never heard before in my life. If we've taken one thing from this experience, it's the sound a vulture makes when it farts ... [laughs]."


Luckily for Carell and Rudd, gassy birds seemed to be the minority in the unanimously stellar cast of comedic talent. Other 'Schmucks' stars include 'The Hangover''s Zach Galifianakis, 'Little Britain' actor David Walliams, New Zealand native Jemaine Clement of 'Flight of the Conchords' fame and ventriloquist Jeff Dunham, to name a few.

And with such an oddball assemblage of schmucks, the script seems to provide fertile ground for both the actors and the writers to craft some truly spectacular moments of sheer farce, whilst simultaneously allowing for touching scenes of genuine pathos.

Scriptwriters Michael Handelman and David Guion had some very specific ideas about how to characterize each schmuck during the writing process, and surprisingly, their approach wasn't just about playing for laughs. "
It was a huge challenge and an ongoing discussion. What defines a schmuck?"
Guion admitted. "
They all have to be misunderstood. They can't be successful in their field. They have to have an obsessive interest in something and not get why what they're doing is 'off,' and they also have to be beautiful human beings."


Carell was quick to agree. "
My character thinks that these people are the greatest people he's ever met, because they're kindred spirits,"
he explained. "
They're people who kind of live on the fringes and dance to their own music, and I love the fact that these people are so unique and so completely committed to whatever their vocation is."


For Dunham's character, Lewis, that uniqueness involves being disturbingly attached to his dummy, Diane, whom he refers to as his wife. Diane, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Joan Rivers and is, Moviefone can attest, anatomically correct, spends most of the movie flirting with every other man at the party, much to Lewis' disapproval.

As for Carell's character, the writers credit the 'Office' star for imbuing Barry with a "
gentleness and innocence"
that wasn't necessarily emphasized in the script. "
Most of the film is the interaction between Paul's character and Steve's character and this kind of sweet friendship that forms between them as Steve completely dismantles Paul's life,"
Handelman laughed.

"
There are so many movies that have odd-couple relationships, but there's something about the premise of this, which is, Paul's character brings this on himself,"
Guion said. "
It's like Hitchcock. There's always a moral transgression that leads you into a nightmare, and Paul's moral transgression is to participate in this thing. He invites this guy into his life and the guy becomes his best friend and destroys him, and in so doing, saves him."


Sounds pretty deep for a comedy movie, but from what we witnessed on set, the film's main concern is providing wall-to-wall funny. From Barry's taxidermy-mouse populated dioramas (or "
mousterpieces"
) detailing historical figures who "
dared to dream,"
to an unfortunate incident involving a certain vulture and a severed appendage, 'Schmucks' looks set to utilize its dream-team cast of comedians to their fullest potential.

Time will tell if audiences enjoy watching the movie as much the cast seemed enjoy making it, but keep an eye out for more behind-the-scenes scoop from the set of 'Schmucks' as we approach the film's July 23 release date.

Sasha wrote:I wish Jemaine was shown somewhere in the trailer... even in the background would be good :/ I'm excited for this!!! Paul and Jemaine in one movie that is alot of sexy on one screen

Amily wrote:Kristen has revealed in a recent radio interview that she will not be opening for the guys on this tour (3 May - 15 May) anymore. She'll be filming a new movie instead. " title="" border="0"/>

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