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Director Jay Roach substituted many of his favorite comedy elements and some bridge segments into the film. In addition to the original "Dinner Game", it also includes the movies "Carnival", "Pink Panther" and "Ace Ace" series, as well as British TV series. "IT Madman".
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The film was originally scheduled to be released on July 23, 2010, but due to the movie "Secret Agent Sauter" being released that day, the producers decided to postpone it for a week and release it on July 30, 2010.
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The film is a collaboration between Steven John Carell and Paul Rudd after the 2005 film "Forty-year-old Virgin" after five years.
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Jay Roach has absorbed the director Blake Edwards' methods in stimulating the enthusiasm of the actors' performance, and given the actors more freedom to play while maintaining the overall rhythm of the script .
Dinner for Schmucks behind the scenes gags
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Darla: [seductively] I'm a naughty little schoolgirl...
Barry: You look a little old to be a schoolgirl.
Darla: I need to be punished. I cheated in class. Don't you want to be my school teacher?
Barry: I'm really not qualified I work for the IRS.
Darla: [winks] Not tonight...
Barry: No, all the time. I work...
Darla: Ok, ok! You work for the IRS and I have been very, very bad. I haven't paid my taxes and I need to be spanked, NOW!
Barry: Well, that's really not the way it works, you probably just have to pay the difference, plus interest...
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Tim: Any one of you would throw me under the bus for a bigger bonus, but Barry would throw himself under a car to protect a mouse... that was already dead.