Dinner for Schmucks

An ambitious executive accepts an invitation from his boss to attend a dinner party where high-powered professionals make fun of unsuspecting dimwits in this remake of Francis Veber’s 1998 comedy The Dinner Game. Upwardly mobile executive Tim (Paul Rudd) has just landed his company an extremely wealthy Swiss client when his boss, Lance (Bruce Greenwood), invites him to an exclusive, yet unusually mean-spirited dinner party where each of the high-powered executives brings a guest to make fun of. Recognizing that his long-awaited promotion is finally within reach, Tim begins to have second thoughts about participating in the elaborate charade when his longtime girlfriend, Julie (Stephanie Szostak), the successful curator at a local art gallery, voices intense disdain for the idea. The following day, Tim is looking for a way out of the dinner when fate throws the perfect guest right in front of his luxury car. Barry (Steve Carell) is a sweet but dim-witted IRS agent with an unusual hobby: he creates elaborate dioramas featuring stuffed mice. His latest project is “The Last Supper,” and he’s just put the finishing touches on a tiny mouse Jesus to set at the center of the table. Tim knows that Barry is his ticket to a big corner office on the seventh floor, but the closer the party looms, the more he realizes that his bumbling new acquaintance isn’t just an idiot, but also is a magnet for chaos., In this riotous comedy, Tim wants to snag a big promotion at work, but to do so he must take an eccentric nutcase to his boss’s dinner party, where guests are supposed to bring the strangest person they can find., Tim is a rising executive who happens upon the perfect guest, IRS employee Barry, for his boss’s dinner for idiots – but is Barry more trouble than he’s worth?, Promising business executive Tim is desperate to impress his boss and be promoted. Having secured a huge contract with a Swiss businessman, his manager invites him to an exclusive dinner party where the employee who brings along the most eccentric guest earns a trophy and the praise of the assembled executives. He finds the perfect candidate in a strange IRS employee, who he nearly runs over, but things soon start to fall apart with the unpredictable Barry around., When he finds out that his work superiors host a dinner celebrating the idiocy of their guests, a rising executive questions it when he’s invited, just as he befriends a man who would be the perfect guest., Tim wants to snag a big promotion at work, but to do so he must take an eccentric nutcase to his boss’s dinner party, where guests are supposed to bring the strangest person they can find., Ambitious Tim wants to impress his boss at a dinner where the employee who brings the biggest idiot triumphs. But will he let unwitting oddball Barry be the butt of the joke for his own personal gain?