A comedy about two rival fathers who must make peace when their children get engaged. Everything goes awry when the son of one of the fathers cooks the prize-winning rooster that belongs to the other father for a joint family dinner.


You should definitely watch this today if you have 25 minutes and want to see the most stressful dinner ever filmed. If you hate old silent movies or get weirded out by jokes about pets being eaten, maybe skip it. But for everyone else, this is a masterclass in awkwardness. 🐓 The whole thing starts with these two d...

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Fred Guiol

Lloyd Ingraham
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"You should definitely watch this today if you have 25 minutes and want to see the most stressful dinner ever filmed. If you hate old silent movies or get weirded out by jokes about pets being eaten, maybe skip it. But for everyone else, this is a masterclass in awkwardness. 🐓 The whole thing starts with these two dads who live next door to each other and clearly hate each others guts. Then their kids get engaged, which is already a disaster waiting to happen. Max Davidson plays the one dad..."
Hayes E. Robertson
Hal Roach, Reed Heustis, Leo McCarey
United States

