Dinner With Friends New DVD MOVIE Dennis Quaid Greg Kinnear ANDY Andie Macdowell.


  • Factory Sealed - Brand New DVD Video
  • Approximately 95 Minutes
  • HBO Films
  • Aired August 11, 2001 (United States)
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From the director of "Moonstruck" comes a movie about food, fun and infidelity.

Gabe and Karen.  Beth and Tom.  Four close friends, two great couples.  Married for 12 years, they planned on eating, drinking, and parenting their way into old age together.

But when Gabe and Karen host a dinner to try out some new recipes on their best friends, only one arrives bearing news that will test their friendship and even test their marriage.

When a close friend leaves his wife for another woman, whose side do you take?  Is he deserting his family?  Has she been sabotaging their relationship all these years?  Life can be funny, but not as funny, frustrating or unexpected as simply having Dinner With Friends.

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