Tricked

“Lies always backfire.”

At his 50th birthday party, Remco (Peter Blok) is surrounded by guests his wife has gathered, while his business partners quietly arrange to sell him out. Then his former mistress turns up pregnant, and the evening goes bad from two sides at once. Paul Verhoeven made the film in a Dutch TV experiment, and Remco keeps smiling at the party, a glass in his hand, the candles still lit.