The Dinner
Two sets of wealthy parents meet for dinner to decide what to do about a crime their sons have committed.
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"I stuck it through to the end, mainly because the cast are so great. Normally. But nothing could save this film. The script and over-talking and intercutting made it all a jumbled mess. There was no one to root for. And the ending? It's like it ran out of steam and subdural ideas and appalling dialogue. A killing at the end might have saved it. But I was beyond caring. Fisticuffs among bros, I've seen too much of that lately in more films and series than I can count. Spare me. 1/10..."
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The author of the book 'The Dinner', Herman Koch, walked away from the European premiere in Berlin on February 10, 2017. He did not wish to stay for the after-party, nor talk to the director, cast members or audience. The reason was that he did not like the movie at all, mostly for the script which he thought had transferred his cynical story into a moral tale. Of the three movies made from his book, "this one is easily the worst", Koch said to Dutch newspaper NRC (Feb 11, 2017). "That after-party would have been rather awkward. What would I have done? Shake hands with everybody and tell them I hated their movie?" Koch disliked the movie's reference to themes like American violence and the stigma of mental illness. "That 'didactical' tone, isn't it killing?", Koch said.
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Two sets of wealthy parents meet for dinner to decide what to do about a crime their sons have committed.