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Happy Family(2006)

  • Comedy
  • Romance
5.6

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...

Status:Released
Release Date:Dec 14, 2006
Runtime: 1h 23m

Director:

Martin Koolhoven

Writer:

Maarten Lebens

Top Cast

Ad van Kempen

Ad van Kempen

Geert de Jong

Geert de Jong

Yes-R

Yes-R

Tjitske Reidinga

Tjitske Reidinga

Plien van Bennekom

Plien van Bennekom

Sabri Saad El-Hamus

Sabri Saad El-Hamus

Fatma Genç

Fatma Genç

Sadik Eksi

Sadik Eksi

Luk D'Heu

Luk D'Heu

Frieda Pittoors

Frieda Pittoors

Gene Bervoets

Gene Bervoets

Helmert Woudenberg

Helmert Woudenberg

Yahya Gaier

Yahya Gaier

Sedat Mert

Sedat Mert

Juliette de Wijn

Juliette de Wijn

Jos van der Donk

Jos van der Donk

Koen van der Donk

Koen van der Donk

Micha Hulshof

Micha Hulshof

Sanne Vogel

Sanne Vogel

Judith Bovenberg

Judith Bovenberg

Jacques D'Ancona

Jacques D'Ancona

Martin Koolhoven

Martin Koolhoven

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