Dinner for Schmucks: Finally, a bromance with mouse taxidermy!
by Alison Hallett
AS THE OPENING CREDITS roll for the Paul Rudd/Steve Carell teamup Dinner for Schmucks, the camera carefully pans over a miniature landscape full of taxidermied mice—mice out for a stroll, mice having a picnic, mice working on their tans. What these mice have to do with Our Hero, the dashing and presumably quite virile Paul Rudd, will soon become clear. Clear-ish. You see, Rudd has a job at a fancy-seeming investment concern, and he's angling for a promotion, because he…
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