7/30/2010
Opening today (July 30th) is the new comedy Dinner For Schmucks, starring Paul Rudd, Steve Carrell and Zach Galifianakis. The film follows Tim, played by Rudd, a rising executive, who works for a boss who has a dinner in which the guest who brings the biggest loser gets to move up in the company. Tim reluctantly accepts and meets Barry, played by Carrell, a man who builds dioramas using stuffed mice, whose antics threaten Tim's business deals and the course of Tim's life.
Dinner For Schmucks is rated PG-13 and has a running time of 1 hour and 50 minutes.
Dinner For Schmucks was directed by Jay Roach.
Paul Rudd says his character will do almost anything to get ahead at his job: "A guy who works for this company and really wants to get ahead in the company, and is actually presented with this opportunity to join the elite and has feelings that maybe this dinner is not the most -- morally upstanding thing to do but will do it if he has to."
Steve Carrell says his character is inspiring: "He's not the coolest guy in the world, he's not somebody that is invited to a lot of parties, if any, so for him to have the attitude that he does about life and about himself and about other people I think is, is sort of inspiring and the fact that he can remain kind and steady through all of it."
Zach Galifianakis explains why he loves his character, Therman: "I love that -- a character that's really stupid and also confident. That's kind of a really funny thing to play."
Steve Carrell says Barry and Therman's relationship is complicated: "Barry believes Therman to have mind control over him. Therman is the imposing figure of Zach Galifianakis. And Barry is both in awe and has a great deal of respect and animosity toward this person. It's a very conflicted relationship because on one hand he idolizes Therman and wishes he could be more like him but he also hates him, detests him really."
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