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Recipes For Disaster

2008 85 min Finnish
Wubly rating 6.8 IMDb rating 7.1

Director John Webster convinces his wife and two small children that the whole family should go on an oil diet, yet without having to give up their a middle class suburban lifestyle. All the everyday things that we don't do, or that we can't help doing, make up recipes for disaster. In this comedy of errors they find themselves questioning their values and putting to test their will power and ultimately, their happiness.

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Cast

8 people

John Webster Director · Nils Pagh Andersen Editor

Worldwide gross $89K · Budget $587K · First release February 17, 2008

Box office

Budget

$586,662

Worldwide gross

$88,840

Gross vs. budget

0.2×

Production

J

JW Documentaries

Production

M

Magic Hour Films

Production

M

Millennium Film

Production

Finland

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Languages

Original title

Katastrofin aineksia

Original language

Finnish

Spoken on screen

English · Finnish

Release dates

Canada · February 17, 2008

TV premiere

Finland · September 19, 2008

Theatrical

No release date listed for United States.

Japan

June 9, 2012 · EU Film Days

Netherlands

December 9, 2009 · TV premiere

Poland

December 1, 2009 · Camerimage Film Festival

Sweden

January 28, 2009 · Göteborg International Film Festival

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