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Dinner at Eight

Dinner at Eight

1933
Romance, Comedy
1h 51m
Social climbing Millicent and Oliver Jordan throw a dinner for a bunch of New York society types, each of whom has much to reveal. (imdb)

Dinner at Eight

1933
Romance, Comedy
1h 51m
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Rated 12 Dec 2006
81
64th
While the whole thing never completely comes together, the whole cast is very enjoyable and all the individual parts are very funny.
Rated 07 Oct 2021
60
35th
Subtitle: Other People Have Problems, Too. With a movie that keeps talking about this gigantic dinner party, it's a letdown that we conclude just before the actual dinner -- which likely would have had the fireworks set up by all the subplots the movie actually shows. The dialogue is great (if a little slow for modern audiences), and the cast is quite good. It just felt like it started (and ended) in the wrong place.
Rated 07 Jul 2020
81
80th
A dramedy of epic proportions.
Rated 04 Feb 2020
78
63rd
More an amusing farce than a genuinely great comedy, but the concept is really good. Each character is flawed, if not contemptible, as most of them are. It feels like with a slightly sharper script and better directing, this could have been one of the great films of its time.
Rated 28 Jul 2019
75
26th
Viewed July 27, 2019.
Rated 11 Mar 2019
89
69th
89.00
Rated 29 Apr 2016
56
11th
Pretty underwhelming. I expected more than only the last 15% of the movie to take place at the dinner itself. The plot kept my attention.
Rated 23 Mar 2014
74
63rd
A really theatrical warmup of sorts for Rules of the Games. It doesn't really try at all to distance itself from its stage origins, but something about rich assholes lying to each other and keeping up appearances is still entertaining to me. I guess there's a little of Abigail's Party in there too, but not nearly as funny. Sort of a fitting double bill with the Grand Budapest actually what with the world falling apart right outside the bourgeois' window. So yes, it reminds me of movies I like.
Rated 22 Sep 2013
88
95th
88.000
Rated 10 Aug 2013
60
51st
My biggest beef with the movie is that it seems to be gaining momentum right when it ends. Otherwise, it's a lot of cross connecting dramatics, and rarely do we get more than one of the players in the same scene. Harlow, Dressler, and Beery run off with the results handily.
Rated 07 Feb 2013
70
96th
MGM does it again. Bringing all their big names together for another all-star extravaganza! John Barrymore is a washed-up drunken actor who's life falls apart bit by bit. John is good, but it's not his best performance. His long scenes tend to drift off to nothing. The life of the show are the couple Wallace Beery & Jean Harlow and grand old lady Marie Dressler in one of her final big roles before passing. Her scenes with Lionel Barrymore are gold. Not a perfect film, but it is a lovely movie!
Rated 19 Feb 2010
68
54th
The Great Depression hits the upper-class in this George Cukor film. It's basically a showcase for actors, working from a well-written script. Marie Dressler comes off best (John Barrymore is alternately great and hammy --he'd fuse those two traits better the following year in Twentieth Century).
Rated 01 Feb 2010
82
52nd
Suffers from the star-studded, important picture syndrome, but it still has some fine moments and it moves along at a decent pace.
Rated 28 Nov 2009
75
48th
It's neat to see all these stars of the 1930 together in a film, especially the Barrymores. The characters and situations, for the most part, are interesting. But the predictable nature of some of the events left me feeling a tad bored at times. Over all though, a pretty entertaining and often times moving film.
Rated 09 Nov 2009
60
47th
Sort of nice but I have never understood what the big deal is
Rated 27 Apr 2008
35
31st
Yet another one of those "classics" that looks mediocre compared to more modern movies. Slow and plodding. Any plot twists you can see coming a mile away.

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