Dinner at Eight (1933)

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It's a little rough around the edges, but the performances from these legendary actors really make this movie worthy of your time

April 24, 2013 Full Review

Austin Kennedy

Film Geek Central

A deluxe flipbook of caricatures, a blatant pageant of studio thoroughbreds, a study of tuxedoed, bejeweled pretense

June 7, 2010 Full Review

Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

Features a stellar cast of all-star MGM veterans who all know how to overact.

April 7, 2008 Full Review

Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Taking advantage of MGM's talent pool, George Cukor directed this witty 1933 comedy with a big-gun cast that includes Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, and Jean Harlow.

December 30, 2005 Full Review

Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Scintillating '30s comedy with an all-star cast and quip-happy script.

September 9, 2005

Carol Cling

Las Vegas Review-Journal

A sparkling script and game efforts from an all-star cast easily overcome the creakiness.

March 18, 2005 Full Review

Matt Brunson

Creative Loafing

A comedic roundelay in which colorful character, tension, quips and societal norms all entertainingly commingle.

March 10, 2005 Full Review

Brent Simon

Now Playing Magazine

Featuring a crème de la crème assortment of Hollywood players, character actors, and rising stars, Dinner at Eight is entitled to a more deluxe treatment.

March 2, 2005 Full Review

Jeremiah Kipp

Slant Magazine

The dinner party that closes Dinner at Eight wouldn't feel like dancing at the end of the world without Renault's final gesture.

March 2, 2005 Full Review

Jeremiah Kipp

Slant Magazine

Each star has a memorable moment.

May 24, 2003 Full Review

Film4

Sterling film version of the play with some great performances.

May 20, 2003

Ken Hanke

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

• 1. Max Kane: Oh, no. l'm just telling you the truth... You know, you never were an actor. You did have looks, but they're gone now. You don't have to take my word for it. Just look in any mirror. They don't lie. Take a good look. Look at those pouches under your eyes. Look at those creases. You sag like an old woman! Get a load of yourself! Wait till you start tramping around the offices, looking for a job, because no agent's going to handle you. Sitting in those anterooms hour after hour, giving your name to office boys that never even heard of you. You're through, Renault! You're through in pictures and plays and vaudeville and radio and everything. You're a corpse, and you don't know it. Go get yourself buried!
  – Submitted by Travis F (6 months ago)
• 1. Carlotta Vance: That's the unfortunate thing about death. It's so terribly final. Even the young can't do anything about it.
  – Submitted by Travis F (6 months ago)
• 1. Kitty Packard: I was reading a book the other day.
  2. Carlotta Vance: Reading a book?
  3. Kitty Packard: Yes. It's all about civilization or something, a nutty kind of a book. Do you know that the guy said that machinery is going to take the place of every profession?
  4. Carlotta Vance: Oh, my dear, that's something you need never worry about.
  – Submitted by Chris P (2 years ago)

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