Happy Family

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...

• Martin KoolhovenDirector
• Maarten LebensWriter

• Ad van KempenCast
• Geert de JongCast
• Yes-RCast
• Tjitske ReidingaCast
• Plien van BennekomCast
• Sabri Saad El-HamusCast
• Fatma GençCast
• Sadik EksiCast
• Luk D'HeuCast
• Frieda PittoorsCast
• Gene BervoetsCast
• Helmert WoudenbergCast