A dinner goes wrong when a name is chosen for a baby that’s on the way. Comedy with Patrick Bruel.

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The hostess (Valérie Benguigui) is in the kitchen making dinner, the guests have almost all arrived, the evening promises to be a warm affair. As they wait, the husband (Patrick Bruel) is pestered by everyone about what the couple will name their baby, which is due soon. He decides to let everyone guess. All the classic names are bandied about, but soon it comes out: the fun evening turns uncomfortable as the guests are shocked, then dismayed, by the revelation. The evening snowballs into a fight, as those gathered bombard each other with opinions they should better have kept to themselves...

Only Charles Berling didn't join the original troupe who all played in the stage version of this vaudevillian adaptation. The idea for making a film version may rest in the notion of not having to rehearse at all, considering the actors already know their parts. But they seem to have forgotten they are all wired for sound and don't have to project, don't have to make loud speeches out of their lines. The result is that the movie is somewhat tiresome for those who aren't deaf or sitting in the back row.