The Dinner
2013 · 88 MIN · IMDB 6.0 · 2,614 VOTES · DIR. Menno Meyjes
Overview
Two brothers and their wives have dinner in a fancy restaurant to discuss their teenage children's misdeeds. An excoriating assessment of Europe’s contemporary social ills.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,045 lines
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00:00:19 THE DINNER
00:04:12 How many dads who beat their kids? How many morons? How many assholes?
00:06:48 But it says here... - May I see that?
00:12:08 Where were you? He was looking for you. - In the bathroom.
00:15:54 Don't know. Popped into my head.
00:18:18 Very good.
00:22:00 It all happened rather suddenly.
00:25:51 Yeah, where that painter tries to pick up two girls.
00:29:19 Not that much. It will lose the nose.
00:32:46 Serge, it probably took that guy hours to prepare that.
00:36:10 Something about parents...
00:39:35 The psychologist at the school where I taught...
00:42:44 And what is the unmasking?
00:46:00 A bit like Stevie Wonder with hedge trimmers.
00:48:24 Let me have my say and then it's your turn.
00:50:52 But they aren't.
00:53:57 How far along are the police, you think? - The police are quiet.
00:58:30 Nonsense! That's sheer nonsense. This isn't America.
01:01:16 He's almost 16 and acts so tough.
01:04:00 Bastards.
01:07:05 They'll talk to Beau? - Talk, yes.
01:10:09 that he should do what seems best.
01:13:21 What? - Your car. Now.
03:00:00 will this stop?
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,045
Dialogue density11.9 lines / min
First line00:00:19
Final line03:00:00
Production Record
DirectorMenno Meyjes
LanguageDutch
IMDb votes2,614