Happy Family

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Happy Family

Release Date: December 14, 2006

Year	:	2006
Slogan	:	«»
Genres	:	Comedy, Romance
Production Companies	:	Max TV, Waterland Film, Revolver Amsterdam
Director	:	Martin Koolhoven
Producers	:
Writers	:	Maarten Lebens
RunTime	:	83 mins.
Budget	:	800000
Revenue	:	966214

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...