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Dinner with Friends (TV 2001)

TV Movie  -   -  Comedy | Drama  -  11 August 2001 (USA)
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A husband and wife reevaluate their marriage after their closest friends, another couple decide to split up after twelve years.

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This candid, often-funny drama explores the bittersweet side of friendship through the eyes of two best-friend married couples. Invited to dinner at the suburban home of husband-and-wife food critics Gabe and Karen, Beth reveals she's breaking up with her husband Tom after 12 years of marriage and two children. This unexpected revelation forces Gabe and Karen to reevaluate their seemingly perfect relationship, as well as their friendship with two people who seem to be refusing the life they all once worked so hard to preserve. The drama is set in present-day Connecticut and New York City, with flashbacks to Martha's Vineyard twelve-and-a-half years earlier. Written by <Laffz00@aol.com>

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marriage | friendship | friend | food | dinner | See more »

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Four Friends. Two Marriages. One Divorce. See more »

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The play "Dinner with Friends" won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 2000. See more »

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15 minutes into the movie, just before Gabe says "Beth, I'm sorry", the clock in the kitchen reads 8:50. A few seconds later, the clock in the foyer reads 8:20. See more »

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Karen: But those were such happy times! We saw them practically every weekend. When would she have time to have an affair?
Gabe: I don't know. During the week?
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Okay film with good performances
21 March 2004 | by (Wilton, NH) – See all my reviews

Dinner With Friends is an ambitious project. It is an interesting look as the bond of marriage, and its complexities when its all said and done. Two couples, Gabe and Karen (Quaid and McDowell) and Tom and Beth (Kinnear and Collete) have been friends forever. When Gabe and Karen invite their friends over to try a new recipe, Beth says that her and Tom are divorcing. This affects Karen a lot since she thinks of them highly. Gabe has trouble putting it into perspective and tries to remember the good times they had. Things start to change for everyone.

Both marriages are volatile and ready to explode. Gabe and Karen's marriage always rides the thin line (She is constantly nitpicky and he backs down from deep conversation about their marriage), but Tom and Beth's marriage impolded from the outset (They were never right for each other). Deep down Gabe and Karen love each other, but Tom and Beth always saw their marriage as just another thing everyone expected him to go through.

The message is simple: nothing is guaranteed. Marriage is always a developing process. My mom and dad have been married for years, but still learn from it. Then there are marriages I know of that falter after like thirty years because there was just was nothing left.

The performances were good. It is what you come to expect from experienced actors. I did have some problems with Kinnear since he still looks fairly young (He's 40) and not like someone who had been married for years (the painted on gray temples didn't help much lol), but it does beat watching him in Auto Focus (solid perfomance, but not entirely factual).

Near the end, the story begins to bottom out and fall flat. It is still an entertaining movie, but the four actors are more capable than the script allows them to be.


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