At the Movies With Peter Travers: 'Dinner for Schmucks,' 'Charlie St. Cloud' скачать в хорошем качестве

At the Movies With Peter Travers: 'Dinner for Schmucks,' 'Charlie St. Cloud'

Read the article here: http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/pe... When Hollywood decides to remake French farce by Francis Veber, the result can be a champagne cocktail (La Cage Aux Folles spawning The Birdcage) or pâté de merde (Les Compères degenerating into Father's Day). Dinner for Schmucks, adapted from Veber's Le Dîner De Cons, falls somewhere in the middle. What makes the soufflé rise is the actors. Steve Carell is a comic wonder as the film's No. 1 schmuck. Carell's Barry Speck is an IRS auditor who spends his spare time as an amateur taxidermist, stuffing dead mice to star in his dioramas (wait till you see his "Last Supper"). That makes Barry a prize find for Tim Conrad (Paul Rudd), an L.A. financial analyst ready to rise in the ranks if he can win the monthly dinner game held by his boss, Lance Fender (Bruce Greenwood). Lance challenges his execs to find the biggest idiot and bring the fool to dinner to be mocked. Tim's girlfriend, Julie (Stephanie Szostak), is rightly horrified. But when Tim runs down and nearly kills Barry with his Porsche, it's manna from fool heaven.