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Movies that feel likeThe Dinner Game (1998)

For Pierre Brochant and his friends, Wednesday is “Idiots' Day”. The idea is simple: each person has to bring along an idiot. The one who brings the most spectacular idiot wins the prize. Tonight, Brochant is ecstatic. He has found a gem. The ultimate idiot, “A world champion idiot!”. What Brochant doesn’t know is that Pignon is a real jinx, a past master in the art of bringing on catastrophes...

If you loved The Dinner Game, the closest films we have are Best in Show (2000), The Green Butchers (2003) and Adrift in Tokyo (2007). All three share The Dinner Game's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is What's in a Name (2012).

🍅 73% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Francis Veberwittyplayful
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Best in Show
2000 · dir. Christopher Guest
🍅 93%★ 7.5comedyParamount+

The same mix in both: wit, then play

The tension is palpable, the excitement is mounting and the heady scent of competition is in the air as hundreds of eager contestants from across America prepare to take part in what is undoubtedly one of the greatest events of their lives -- the Mayflower Dog Show. The canine contestants and their owners are as wondrously diverse as the great country that has bred them.

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The Green Butchers
2003 · dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
🍅 63%★ 7.2comedy

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

Svend and Bjarne work for a butcher in a small Danish town. Fed up with their boss' arrogance, they decide to start their own butcher shop. After dismal beginnings, an unfortunate accident happens which coincides with a large order of meat. One hasty decision leads to another and soon the business thrives. In the meantime, Bjarne has to deal with his twin brother who has been in coma for years following a gruesome car accident.

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Adrift in Tokyo
2007 · dir. Satoshi Miki
★ 7.2comedy

Comedy with a pulse of play, in both cases

A thug offers to pay a law student's gambling debt if the student will accompany him on a trip across Tokyo.

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Planes, Trains and Automobiles
1987 · dir. John Hughes
🍅 93%★ 7.6comedyParamount+

Both lean on wit more than on comedy

An irritable marketing executive, Neal Page, is heading home to Chicago for Thanksgiving when a number of delays force him to travel with a well meaning but overbearing shower curtain ring salesman, Del Griffith.

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The Boss of It All
2006 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 74%★ 6.6comedy

A streak of play through both

The owner of an IT firm wants to sell his business for profit; however, when he started his firm, he invented a nonexistent president to hide behind when unpopular steps needed to be taken. When potential purchasers insist on negotiating with 'The Boss' face to face, the owner hires a failed actor to play the part.

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National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
1989 · dir. Jeremiah S. Chechik
🍅 72%★ 7.5comedy

The same comedy instincts

It's Christmastime, and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration. But things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen, and their two kids. Clark's continual bad luck is worsened by his obnoxious family guests, but he manages to keep going, knowing that his Christmas bonus is due soon.

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Robin Hood: Men in Tights
1993 · dir. Mel Brooks
🍅 42%★ 6.7comedy

Both play comedy straight

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Robin Hood comes home after fighting in the Crusades to learn that the noble King Richard is in exile and that the despotic King John now rules England, with the help of the Sheriff of Rottingham. Robin Hood assembles a band of fellow patriots to do battle with King John and the Sheriff.

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Four Rooms
1995 · dir. Robert Rodriguez
🍅 13%★ 6.7comedy

Both know what they want from comedy

It's Ted the Bellhop's first night on the job...and the hotel's very unusual guests are about to place him in some outrageous predicaments. It seems that this evening's room service is serving up one unbelievable happening after another.

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Happy Gilmore
1996 · dir. Dennis Dugan
🍅 66%★ 7comedy

Cut from the same comedy cloth

Failed hockey player-turned-golf whiz Happy Gilmore — whose unconventional approach and antics on the green courts the ire of rival Shooter McGavin — is determined to win a PGA tournament so he can save his granny's house with the prize money. Meanwhile, an attractive tour publicist tries to soften Happy's image.

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What's in a Name
2012 · dir. Alexandre de La Patellière
🍅 71%★ 7.3comedy

Both are comedy through and through

Vincent, a wealthy real estate agent, is invited to dinner by his sister Elizabeth and her husband Peter, both professors in Paris. Claude, a childhood friend and trombonist in a symphony orchestra, is also present. Vincent brings news from the prenatal examination of his and his wife Anna's unborn son. The name chosen by the soon-to-be parents strongly offends the others for many reasons. The dispute between the guests quickly escalates and before long the resurgence of old grudges and hidden secrets is unavoidable...

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Cado dalle nubi
2009 · dir. Gennaro Nunziante
★ 6.5comedy

The comedy is handled with the same confidence

An aspiring singer from southern Italy who's just been dumped moves north to Milan, where he falls in love and enters a TV singing competition show.

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Welcome to the South
2010 · dir. Luca Miniero
★ 6.6comedy

Comedy of the same temperament

Alberto, post office manager of a small town in Brianza, under pressure of his wife Sylvia, is willing to do anything to get the transfer to Milan. Even pretending to be disabled to climb in the ranking. But the trick does not work and as punishment, he is transferred in a small town in Campania, which to an inhabitant of the north is equivalent to a nightmare ...

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