Cloaca (2003)

Actors: Pierre Bokma (actor), Hanneke Niens (producer), Fons Merkies (composer), Menno Slot (miscellaneous crew), Jaap Spijkers (actor), Gijs Scholten van Aschat (actor), Marcel Hensema (actor), Peter Hermans (miscellaneous crew), Wouter Jansen (editor), Anton Smit (producer), Frans Kuijper (miscellaneous crew), Erik Rensink (miscellaneous crew), Jeroen Spitzenberger (actor), Elsie de Brauw (actress), Peter Blok (actor),

Plot: The relationship of four old college friends in trouble is renewed when they get dependent on each other. Pieter doesn't want to give back eight valuable paintings he took from the art depot of the municipality for each year as a birthday present. To help him, he requests the help from Tom, once a lawyer, but now a drug addict. Politician Joep, quarrelling with his wife and in the race for becoming a member of the Dutch cabinet, is hiding at Pieter's place. Joep's daughter is actress in a play of stage director Maarten. Secretly Maarten is having sex with her and he is looking for an opportunity to tell. For some time the friendship of the four is revived, but are they willing to go through fire and water for one another?

Keywords: adultery, art, based-on-play, birthday, blood, blow-job, civil-servant, cocaine, college-friend, demolition
Genres: Comedy, Drama,

Quotes:

Pieter: Two months in a clinic?::Tom: No, one month.::Pieter: Oh, one month.::Tom: Yes, because after that clinic I had to go to that institution.::Pieter: Institution?::Tom: Yes, to become friends with my manic depressive character.

Joep: Leakage in the kitchen, where since forever a bowl is placed under. Why not have called a plumber? Well, you think, because Catweazle in the mean time got used to drink out of that bowl. Do you get that logic?

Pieter: I rather, to be honest, want to select something from the nil-depot. That is a cellar under the town-hall where all the more or less written of art is stored. Most is garbage. 800 square metres full of uglyness, that really is bad Tom.

Tom: For a moment I play the devil's advocate. If I was the municipality I'd sue you.::Pieter: Why?::Tom: Embezzlement.::Joep: Embezzlement?::Tom: Yes.::Pieter: But you're not the devil's advocate, you're my lawyer.::Joep: But, I really can't have that, Piet. In a week I am minister. A gay okay, but an embezzling gay really is impossible.