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Happy Family

2006 Directed by Martin Koolhoven

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...

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Ad van Kempen

Ad van Kempen

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Geert de Jong

Geert de Jong

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Yes-R

Yes-R

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Tjitske Reidinga

Tjitske Reidinga

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Plien van Bennekom

Plien van Bennekom

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Sabri Saad El-Hamus

Sabri Saad El-Hamus

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Fatma Genç

Fatma Genç

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83 minutes

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