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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780780636729
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0780636724
Label: New Line Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageUnknown
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
MPN: TRNDN5392D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 15, 2002
Running Time: 115 minutes
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 24, 2001
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 05/10/2005 Run time: 95 minutes Rating: R
Amazon.com:
It's easy to be skeptical when a couple of well-connected actors throw a script together, start shooting their fabulous friends with digital cameras, and call it a movie. But Jennifer Jason Leigh and Alan Cumming, who bonded in Cabaret on Broadway, have crafted a rough little gem in The Anniversary Party. Influenced by Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Player, it's a devastating portrait of a fragile marriage and a perceptive look at life in Hollywood. The characters are based--to an eerie degree--on their Hollywood counterparts: Kevin Kline and Phoebe Cates are a Shakespeare-quoting actor and his retired actress wife; Gwyneth Paltrow is a rising young starlet; etc. Leigh is an actress on the way down, and Cumming, a best-selling author and up-and-coming director, is the sexually ambiguous husband with whom she has recently reconciled. The titular party is to celebrate their sixth anniversary, and revelations about the characters accumulate as the evening progresses from a tense session of charades to an ecstasy-pill-fueled blowout by the pool. The screenplay combines brittle humor with melodrama and consists of more talk than action (as in the Dogme films that inspired it), but the proceedings are rarely less than compelling even if the characters, for the most part, aren't exactly the most likable bunch. As a result, Jennifer Beals ends up stealing the show from the bigger names in the cast simply by emerging as the most genuinely human character--the one who actually showed up to honor her friends' commitment rather than to advance her career. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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Rating:  -
This movie is still on cable TV but I think I can make the call...ugh.
The late Gene Siskel famously asked, "Would lunch with the actors in a movie be more interesting than the movie itself?"
THE ANNIVERSARY PARTY adds another layer to that dilemma: if actors filmed a party as a movie...would it be more interesting than a real movie...or would it be worse than actually attending a party with them?
The first part of the movie is dead air. You wonder if the actors ... Read More
Rating:  -
"The Anniversary Party" is one of those small, enjoyable, indie films, that you can watch over and over again and with each repeated viewing find new details, plot points and lines of witty dialogue, that come to the viewer's attention.
In this comedy/drama, we meet Joe (Alan Cumming) and Sally (Jennifer Jason Leigh), who are celebrating their sixth wedding anniversary with a party held in their beautiful, modern, LA home. At first, they seem like the perfect celebrity couple. Sally is a famous ... Read More
Rating:  -
EVER B EEN INVITED YO A SNOBBY PARTY. ESPECIALLLY WHEN THE HUSBANDS BEST FRIEND IS A WOMAN. LOADS OF FUN. JM
Rating: -
This was one of the most unlikable films I've seen in a long, long time.
The mood is set right at the beginning, when the main character just can't keep his hairy armpits from being spotlighted in the camera. It's gross, it's relentless, and apparently the director liked it that way.
Then there's the overuse of the F word, again, setting the I'm-not-going-to-like-this-film mood. F this, F that. It's not even mildly realistic; it's gratuitous.
The film goes from strange ... Read More
Rating: -
This movie was done very well. Its more of reality than a reality show. Theres many people in the movie and it shows very nicely their personalities, and little peeks into their lives without even leaving the party. It also shows the realness of extacy and relationships. Its a beautiful movie that will make you laugh, feel calm, cry and want to get up and do E lol.
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