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Dinner with Friends (2001)
Front Cover Actor
Movie Details
Director Norman Jewison
Language English
Audience Rating R (Restricted)
Running Time 94 mins
Country USA
Color Color
Plot
Directed by Norman Jewison and adapted by Donald Margulies from his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, this acclaimed HBO production offers a welcome antidote to the superficiality of mainstream Hollywood. With the same attention to emotional detail that he brought to Moonstruck, Jewison establishes a delicate balance of anguish and bittersweet humor, reaching peak intensity as two couples confront the aftershocks of infidelity. Dennis Quaid and Andie MacDowell play the steady pair, committed to surviving every marital peak and valley. Greg Kinnear and Toni Collette are splitting up, divided by his infidelity and forced to reevaluate connections to their long-term friends. While Jewison and cinematographer Roger Deakins expertly translate the stagy material, the revealing, nonjudgmental quality of Margulies's dialogue inspires excellence from this quartet of underrated actors. Funny, painful, and full of truth, Dinner with Friends presents marriage as an organic work in progress, never to be taken for granted, and never guaranteed. --Jeff Shannon
Personal Details
Seen It Yes
Index 1490
Collection Status In Collection
Links Amazon US
Product Details
Format DVD
Region Region 1
026359189326
Release Date 1/22/2002
Subtitles English; French; Spanish
Audio Tracks English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Nr of Disks/Tapes 1