Dinner for Schmucks

Dinner for Schmucks also known as Dinner with Schmucks is a 2010 American comedy film directed by Jay Roach. The film is the American adaptation of the 1998 French comedy Le Dner de Cons and was 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 40YearOld Virgin. The film was released theatrically on July 30, 2010.

Tim Conrad Paul Rudd is a midlevel financial executive, who comes up with a way via special novelty lamps to invite wealthy Swiss businessman Martin Mueller David Walliams to become a client of his firm. Impressed by Tims ingenuity, his boss Lance Fender Bruce Greenwood invites him to a dinner for winners in which he must find and bring an eccentric person with a special talent the winner earns a trophy and the executive that brought him or her gets glory. He soon learns it is more of a dinner for idiots, and the partygoers will be mocked mercilessly. Meanwhile, Tims girlfriend Julie Stephanie Szostak lands a curator deal for eccentric artist Kieran Vollard Jemaine Clement, and Tim unsuccessfully proposes to her, as he has done several times before. After learning of the cruel nature of the dinner party, Julie becomes upset and asks him not to attend and he agrees.The next day, Tim accidentally hits IRS employee Barry Speck Steve Carell with his car when Barry tries to retrieve a dead mouse in the road. Witnessing Barrys bizarre behavior he taxidermies mice and arranges them into elaborate dioramas, Tim realizes he is the perfect loser for the dinner. That night, Barry shows up at Tims apartment unannounced and accidentally invites over Darla Lucy Punch, who had a onenight stand with Tim years ago and has been stalking him. Barry decides to guard Tims apartment from Darla to make up for inviting her. When Julie arrives at his apartment, Barry mistakes her for Darla and sends her away, giving Julie the mistaken impression that Tim is cheating on her. Barry decides to call Vollard and finds the number saved in the phone. While talking to him, he and Tim think they hear Julie in the background and head to Vollards apartment. Barry tosses Tims keys through Vollards apartment window and must break in, only to find Kieran preparing to make love to two girls dressed like animals neither of them are Julie and head back home. ........

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