The Misfortunates

About The Misfortunates

13-year-old Gunther Strobbe grows up surrounded by alcohol, trash and his completely useless father and uncles. Slowly but surely, he's being prepared for the same hapless life.

Felix van Groeningen's The Misfortunates is a 2009 comedy film. Released in October 2009, it runs 108 minutes.

Kenneth Vanbaeden takes the lead as Kleine Gunther Strobbe (13 jaar), Valentijn Dhaenens as Gunther Strobbe, Koen De Graeve as Marcel 'Celle' Strobbe, and Wouter Hendrickx as Lowie 'Petrol' Strobbe. Written by Christophe Dirickx and Dimitri Verhulst. It was produced by Menuet.

Members will find alcoholism, big family, uncle nephew relationship, and unwanted pregnancy in it.

Megalopolis make useful companions to The Misfortunates. It scores 7.1 out of 10 from 231 TMDB voters.