Dinner with Friends [Region 2] |  | Director: Norman Jewison
Actors: Dennis Quaid, Andie Macdowell, Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Taylor Emerson
Category: DVD
Buy Used: $49.69
Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 229194
Format: Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 2
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Running Time: 94 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 7321900938389
ASIN: B000066TF9
Theatrical Release Date: August 11, 2001
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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
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 Great Movie! February 13, 2009
Julia M. Reindl
Loved this movie! A ton of great stars and terrific dialogue~
Very reminisant of "The Big Chill!"
 dinner with friends DVD October 3, 2007
N. janus (Fishkill NY USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A great cast, a great set of dialogs, human nature and frailties, misconceptions, what more can I say, a captivating movie worth watching over and over
 For Couples and Their Friends (3.5 stars) August 26, 2007
Bklyn gal (Bklyn, NY)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Intellectual and poignant, this is a film that deals with one of the most delicate relationships of all- "couple-friends." Most of us have, or have had, "those friends"- they are the "other couple," they got together around the same time as you, you see them almost every weekend, they watch your pets and collect your mail when you go out of town. You have similar situations(house, children, or something that equates that). You keep each other going when the other pair hits a rough patch. But how well do you really know what is going on in someone else's relationship? How much does someone else's situation affect your own? This film poses and tackles those very questions. Dennis Quaid and Andie MacDowell find out that their best friends Greg Kinnear and Toni Collette are getting divorced. What seemed to be a relationship very much like their own is suddenly dissolving. This dissolution calls into question their own relationship's stability, as well as their relationship with Kinnear & Collette. How well did Quaid/MacDowell really know Kinnear/Collette if they, the couple's BEST friends, did not see the true nature of their problems? What does it say about their own relationship that the couple who seemed to be in such a similar situation as theirs are deciding their problems are too deep to continue the marriage? There is a great scene toward the end of the film where Kinnear and Quaid go out for a drink months after the divorce and Kinnear tells Quaid "Oh, c'mon, Gabe, I know how it is- I've heard YOU complain" and Quaid tells him "that's what married friends do- we complain, we talk about wives- and then we go home." This fundamental difference between the two friends, and by extension the two couuples, is something that comes up repeatedly. Which couple was right? Is there a right and wrong choice? How does someone else's life choices affect you? Should it affect you? Your best friends break up, and you are left somewhere in the middle. Do you take sides? What happens to the friendship when the circumstances are no longer the thing you have most in common? Can you even stay friends? This is a great film- one that was entirely underrated. The performances are excellent- Kinnear, Quaid, and Collette especially. Seeing this performed on the stage would've been amazing!
This movie delivers May 10, 2007
Mom to 2 (Valencia, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The cast is strong - the script is smart, funny and something that we all can relate to in one way or another. I was so glad that I fell upon it at Blockbuster - didn't expect it to be so good, and now it is one of my favorites. Enjoy!
best friends and bad marriages January 25, 2007
Daniel B. Clendenin (www.journeywithjesus.net)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Two couples, best friends, explore the problems and possibilities of marriage and go their separate ways. Which couple chose the better path?
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