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Released
2010 · FILM

Dinner for Schmucks

Ambitious salesman Tim Conrad must decide whether to betray his conscience by bringing the bizarre taxidermist Barry Speck to a high‑stakes corporate dinner, where the winner earns a coveted promotion—or risk losing everything by refusing the cutthroat invitation.

“Takes one to know one.”

Directed by
Jay Roach
Written by
David Guion, Michael Handelman
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
114 min
Comedy
Streaming on
  • MGM+

Synopsis

Tim Conrad, a rising executive, works for a boss who organizes a monthly dinner where the guest who brings the most absurd gift receives a career advantage. Initially planning not to attend, Tim meets Barry, a man who creates dioramas using stuffed mice. Barry's well-meaning but clumsy behavior leads to a series of mishaps that jeopardize Tim's professional prospects and put his engagement to his fiancée at risk.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 38

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Alan BaumgartenShot by Jim DenaultScored by Theodore ShapiroDesigned by Michael Corenblith

Box Office

2010 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.3× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$86.4M

Budget$69.0M
Worldwide gross$86.4M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $73.0M — 85% of worldwide · International: $13.4M (15%)

Opening weekend: $23.5M — 32% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $36.2M — 50% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,911 theaters

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Also known as

  • Dinner für Spinnerde
  • The Dinnerfr
  • A cena con un cretinoit

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