Happy Family (2006)

  • NR
  • 12/14/2006 (NL)
  • Comedy, Romance
  • 1h 23m

Overview

Thijs is a ripe-age Dutch tomato grower. His adult daughters plan to have him move in a skyscraper-flat, leaving home and professional life, but he takes his adolescent (half-)Moroccon grandson Omar's advice to refuse and keep living. Thijs even lets the cheerful rascal coach his love-life, which lands him on a blind date with Jacky, an energetic Flemish woman, who won't take no for an answer but turns up at his door-step till he consents, and soon drags him into evening life, preparing for a dance contest. Soon after Omar turns up, listless and lazier then ever, runaway from school and home. The obvious reason for the horny hound's hanging head is a girl: Mergal is foxy, Turkish and as smitten as he, but her burly big brother Erhan will only allow a boy to go steady with her who has proven himself his better on the field in the traditional manly sport of oil-wrestling. Now Thijs...

Maarten Lebens

Writer

Martin Koolhoven

Director

Cast

Ad van Kempen's headshot

Ad van Kempen

Geert de Jong's headshot

Geert de Jong

Yes-R's headshot

Yes-R

Tjitske Reidinga's headshot

Tjitske Reidinga

Plien van Bennekom's headshot

Plien van Bennekom

Sabri Saad El-Hamus's headshot

Sabri Saad El-Hamus

Fatma Genç's headshot

Fatma Genç

Sadik Eksi's headshot

Sadik Eksi

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