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Melvin Goes to Dinner (2003)
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4 December 2003 (USA)
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Marital infidelity, religion, a guy in heaven wearing a Wizards jersey, anal fetishes, cigarettes and schizophrenia, ghosts, and how it's going to get worse before it gets better.
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5 wins
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Opening This Week: Mumbai fairytales, Harry Potter fandom and Bond, James Bond
(From IFC. 10 November 2008, 7:16 AM, PST)
(From IFC. 10 November 2008, 7:16 AM, PST)
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Oh what can happen at dinner
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Michael Blieden | ... | Melvin |
 | Stephanie Courtney | ... | Alex |
 | Matt Price | ... | Joey |
 | Annabelle Gurwitch | ... | Sarah |
| Kathleen Roll | ... | Waitress |
 | Maura Tierney | ... | Leslie |
 | Jenna Fischer | ... | Hostess |
| Jacqueline Heinze | ... | Rita |
 | Laura Kightlinger | ... | Laura |
| Fred Armisen | ... | Vesa |
 | Jerry Minor | ... | Solly |
 | James Gunn | ... | Scott |
| BJ Porter | ... | Flight Attendant (as B.J. Porter) |
 | Tucker Smallwood | ... | Passenger |
 | Jennifer Biederman | ... | Child's Mom (as Jen Dollard) |
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Phyro-Giants (USA) (working title)
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Rated R for language and sexuality, including sexual dialogue.
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USA:83 min
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Crew or equipment visible: After they all leave the restaurant, Alex and Sarah are walking and the shadow of the camera and cameraman is visible on the wall by Alex.
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Referenced in The Comedians of Comedy (2005)
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This was a great TiVo pickup. I liked the title, got it off IFC. Although Melvin is the title role, I loved Matt Price as Joey. And it does seem to center more around Joey (at least until the "revelation"), and the revelation was a real surprise, one that makes you go back to the beginning and watch all over again.
It all about what can happen at a loosely arranged dinner between 2 friends, that expands into a dinner among friends and strangers, where people drink too much wine and start revealing things about themselves, and then it's about coincidences and fate and life-after-death, and everything else that can go on at a casual dinner.
But it's not just talk, and the flashbacks and flashforwards make the movie move. And the waitress, Kathleen Roll, with a voice like Lily Tomlin, steals her scenes.