Dick van den Toorn

Dick van den Toorn

Nascimento : 1960-05-13, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

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Dick van den Toorn
Dick van den Toorn

Filmes

The Day After the Night Before
Alfred
Sinterklaas Procession 2022
Wellespiet
Direct report of the national arrival of Sinterklaas that will take place this year in the municipality of Hellevoetsluis. Mayor Milène Junius will welcome the Good Saint and his Pieten in this fortified town on the Haringvliet.
Jackie & Oopjen
Veilingmeester
12-year-old Jackie has made Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, where her mom works, her second home. While wandering around after hours, Oopjen from Rembrandt's famous painting suddenly comes to life. It seems she is looking for her long lost sister. Jackie is used to solving other people's problems and decides to take Oopjen home, so they can go look for her sister. For the woman from the Golden Age, this modern world, its customs and appliances are a great adventure. And Jackie, who doesn't really have any friends at school, finally gains a true BFF.
De Gelaarsde Poes
Koning
Paulien Cornelisse: Maar Ondertussen
Director
2016 recording of the show by Dutch comedian Paulien Cornelisse. In this performance Cornelisse is concerned with all things that seem and may be unimportant, the unnoticed things. She takes a close look at them and subjects them to a thorough analysis. Social issues such as the treatment of a right-cylindrical garbage can are discussed, but there is also an eye for the emotional life of a yellow parakeet.
Micha Wertheim: Voor Zichzelf
Director
Stage registration of the sixth comedy special by the Dutch comedian Micha Wertheim. The comedian notices that he has found his own audience through the years. But Wertheim also notices that his audience projects their own biased opinion on the performance, and there's nothing that Wertheim can do to change that opinion.
Jack's Wish
Uncle Eimbert
Jack Oei (8) has two moms, is an only child and feels lonely. Jack’s biggest wish is a brother. But no matter how much he begs his moms, the little brother just doesn’t arrive. Jack decides to take matters in his own hands….
Micha Wertheim: Voor Je Het Weet
Director
Stage registration of the fifth comedy special by the Dutch comedian Micha Wertheim. At the start of the performance, the performance appears to be unfinished: Micha Wertheim is still writing and the comedian has a writer's block.
Loonies II
Fats
Nursing home Zonnedael has been shut down by director Bomhoff: the psychiatric in-patients Bep Brul, the Major, Fats, Ms. De Haas and Dr. Doolittle are reintroduced into society against their wishes. Nurse Ten Hoeven, who always cared for her patients with love and care, is grieving: her main purpose in life has gone. To make matters worse, she is kidnapped. Of course the patients take action immediately. Under the Major’s guidance they embark on a risky and lunatic venture, to finally discover the incredible truth behind the kidnapping.
Soof
Gerrit
Soof is reaching 40 and has everything she ever wanted: three children, a small catering business, a sweet husband Kasper and a lovely home. Until she starts asking herself: 'is this all there is'?
Bros Before Hos
Hans
Because of a bad marriage of their parents, two brothers Jules and Max made a pact never to get into a relationship with a woman. Therefore, they live a party-life in which they sleep with a different girl every day. However this changes when Jules starts to date Anna and Max falls in love with her. Can their bromance overcome this love triangle.
Micha Wertheim: Voor de Zoveelste Keer
Director
Stage registration of the fourth comedy special by Dutch comedian Micha Wertheim. A show about anger, repetition, change, and repetition.
Plan C
Agent Henk
Ronald Plasmeyer (Ruben Van Der Meer) is a small-time Amsterdam detective, struggling with financial problems because of his gambling habit. When the Chinese crime boss Hao threatens Ronald's ex-wife and son to get his money back, Ronald comes up with a plan that will solve all his problems. Ronald enlists two petty criminals (Ton Kas and René Van 't Hof) to rob an illegal poker tournament he's taking part in, providing him with a perfect alibi. Quick, simple and non-violent; the plan is foolproof... until people start getting killed. Soon, Ronald's partners take off with the money, leaving him empty handed. To make matters worse Ronald's colleagues in the police force begin to suspect him of the robbery, setting the stage for a nerve-racking game of cat and mouse. Ronald is all-in... holding the worst hand of his life.
De sterkste man van Nederland
Lodewijk
Micha Wertheim: Voor de Grap
Director
Stage registration of the third comedy special by Dutch comedian Micha Wertheim. A show about the "news addiction" that dominates the current media landscape, and about the problematic functioning of rhetorical devices like irony and satire.
Happily Ever After
Knoop
A collection of classic fairy tales such as Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood, with a nod and a wink to contemporary times. The film offers characters such as the 'ugly sisters' Paris and Hilton, an updated relationship between Red Riding Hood and the big bad wolf, homosexuality and corny humor. Also musical scenes in which the characters sing the songs of current pop artists as well as many popular Dutch hits.
Sinterklaasjournaal: De Meezing Moevie
Wellespiet
Follow the adventures of the real St. Nick and all his helpers.
Barbosa
Robbie, a divorced Amsterdam commoner, is meanly denied access to his son Tommi, except for monthly visitation. He grudgingly accepts when a loan shark offers to scrap his debt and throw in some cash for a simple service. Robbie must simply trick Marius, a man he never knew, to the port for a fictitious job. As he gets to know Marius, he starts feeling for the generous sociable type. His conscience wants him to warn the mark he's likely to be beaten up.
Micha Wertheim: Voor Gevorderden
Director
Stage registration of the second comedy special by the Dutch comedian Micha Wertheim. This performance takes place in a dream, a dream in which Micha Wertheim shares all kinds of confessions, for example about how he manages to cope with the knowledge that he is probably not a real genius.
Micha Wertheim: Voor Specialisten
Director
Live from Toomler, Amsterdam. Micha Wertheim tells about his time in hospital when he was treated for thyroid cancer.
Loonies
Fats
All Stars
Directeur verzorgingshuis
Seven young men who played soccer together since their early youth grow apart and are forced to think about the nature of their friendship. In a comic way and a very Dutch setting, All Stars is about pregnant girlfriends and homosexuality, career plans and the power of parents.
Intensive Care
Ted
A deranged doctor gets in to a car accident and burns beyond recognition. Years later he awakes from his coma and stalks a young male nurse and his girlfriend, killing everyone along the way.
Dutch Girls
Kees van der Merwe
In this sophomoric comedy, a lusty adolescent British hockey team heads for Holland where they find something far more interesting than tulips and windmills: gorgeous, lusty women. They are so busy pursuing romance that they forget all about their upcoming match.
The Forbidden Bacchanal
Arjen Merkelbach
Film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Simon Vestdijk from 1968. During a dinner with the Van der Laan family, memories are reminisced about previous parties that ended in orgy-like scenes.
Pastorale 1943
Piet Poerstamper
In a Dutch village during the German occupation, a small group of badly organized resistance fighters attempt to assassinate a collaborator.
Sinterklaasjournaal 2022
Wellespiet
The Sinterklaasjournaal is the annual fictional news section in the context of the traditional Sinterklaas celebration of the NTR on Dutch television, showing what Sinterklaas experience everything. The format of the 'real' television news is imitated, where storylines are presented in fragments as reports.