Movie2001·US·1h 34min

Dinner with Friends

Name: Dinner with Friends
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: 2001-08-11T00:00:00Z
Duration: 94 min
Rating: 5.76
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Norman Jewison, Andie MacDowell, Toni Collette, Greg Kinnear

Four Friends. Two Marriages. One Divorce.

Drama Comedy

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Premiere

Aug2001

Studios

HBO Nina Saxon Film Design

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Synopsis

Dinner with Friends (2001) is an American HBO drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Norman Jewison and adapted from Donald Margulies' Pulitzer Prize-winning play.

Gabe and Karen, Beth and Tom — two couples sharing twelve years of holidays, recipes and easy familiarity. Then, over a dinner table, Beth breaks the news that Tom is leaving her. Dennis Quaid and Andie MacDowell play the couple who have to absorb it; Toni Collette and Greg Kinnear are the marriage that just collapsed. What the film catches is how a friend's divorce becomes a mirror: every weekend trip you took together, every argument you witnessed, suddenly reread.

Jewison stages it with the spare economy of theatre — mostly rooms and faces, almost no score. The real subject isn't the split itself but what it exposes in the people watching it happen. Watch Dinner with Friends (2001) online on iFILM.

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