Top 5 Movie Dinner Scenes You'd Fake an Illness to Skip
Some movie meals are so tense, gross, or explosive that any excuse to leave early starts to look pretty good.
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The Pankot Palace Banquet — Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Snake surprise, eyeball soup and chilled monkey brains make it the gold standard for 'I already ate, thanks.'
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The Family Dinner — The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Grandpa getting a turn with the hammer is the most upsetting seating arrangement in film history.
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The 'I Am Your Mother' Dinner — Hereditary
Toni Collette turns a quiet family meal into a scream-match that's scarier than anything supernatural in the movie.
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The Funeral Lunch — August: Osage County
Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts throwing hands over fish is every tense holiday dinner turned all the way up.
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Saying Grace — Meet the Parents
Greg's panicked prayer that wanders into 'Day by Day' from Godspell is the most relatable secondhand embarrassment ever filmed.