Fat adolescent Dik Trom enjoys growing up in a hedonistic town devoted to food and fun. When a restaurant chain offers his father the life-long-dreamed opportunity to run his own, the Trom family moves. Their new home town Dunhoven is however inhabited by health freaks who prefer only fitness to dietary sobriety.
Practical Effects
Gloriously grotesque food props that look genuinely delicious
Costume
Dunhoven's aggressively beige activewear vs Trom's vibrant chaos
Director
Arne Toonen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on 1920s Dutch children's books by C.Joh. Kieviet, which were startlingly progressive for their era in depicting a fat hero without moralizing.
The 'Dunhoven' town square was built on a parking lot in Utrecht; locals kept trying to buy food from the fake restaurant during filming.
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