Happy Family

2006 · Movie · 82 min. · Netherlands

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, in his day a 'dry' wrestler, resolves to return the kid's favor by coaching down-beaten Omar back to life...

Direction Martin Koolhoven

Cast Ad van Kempen · Geert De Jong · Tjitske Reidinga · Plien van Bennekom · Sadik Eksi · Fatma Genç · Yes-R · Sabri Saad El-Hamus · Luk D’Heu · Frieda Pittoors · Yahya Gaier · Gene Bervoets · Helmert Woudenberg · Juliette de Wijn · Sedat Mert · Micha Hulshof · Jos van der Donk · Judith Bovenberg