Happy Family (2006)

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...

Released Dec. 14, 2006 83 min None+

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Keywords: imdb.blind-date, imdb.oil-wrestling, imdb.animated-title-sequence, imdb.adolescence, imdb.coming-of-age, imdb.marijuana, imdb.bare-chested-male + 27 more, imdb.love, imdb.family-relationships, imdb.wrestling, imdb.fight, imdb.smoking-marijuana, imdb.teenager, imdb.dysfunctional-family, imdb.local-blockbuster, imdb.drugs, imdb.waltz, imdb.tango, imdb.friendship-between-men, imdb.director-cameo, imdb.title-based-on-song, imdb.puberty, imdb.cannabis, imdb.wilhelm-scream, imdb.ballroom-dancing, imdb.marriage-proposal, imdb.grandfather-grandson-relationship, imdb.ethnic, imdb.dancing, imdb.cultural-difference, imdb.multicultural, imdb.title-spoken-by-character, soundmix.dolby-digital, aspectratio.2-35-1