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Why We’d Say “No” to Dinner Parties If We Were in the Movies

Dinner parties seem to take place in the movies far more than they do in real life, and they're rarely a good time.

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Posted August 23rd, 2010, 9:08 AM by Alison Willmore

Would you ever agree to a dinner party if you were a movie character? When they aren’t showcases for social awkwardness, embarrassment, frenemyship or the airing of dirty laundry, they’re the location of plots to uncover murders. This week on the IFC News podcast, we look at dinner parties in films, from the endless get-together of “The Exterminating Angel” to “Borat”‘s bodily functions.

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Tags: Alice Adams, Borat, Dinner For Schmucks, Festen, Go!, Luis Buñuel, Murder By Death, Rope, The Exterminating Angel

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