Dinner for Schmucks

Corporate-ladder climbing financial exec Tim (Rudd) is invited by his boss (Greenwood) to an annual dinner where guests bring the biggest loser they can find. Tim is hesitant and his longtime girlfriend Julie (Szostak) despises the whole thing but then Tim encounters amateur mouse taxidermist Barry (an appealing Carell), who agrees to go, unaware of the party's true purpose. But before that, Barry's good intentions inadvertently wreak (hilarious) havoc on Tim's life. Rudd's straight man plays well with Carell's innocent fool with invigorating performances from Galifianakis as a self-appointed mind-controller and Clement as an absurdly pompous sex-crazed artist. Friendlier remake of the 1998 French film "The Dinner Game."