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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 55 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 15, 2002
- Originally Released: 2001
- Label: New Line Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Parker Posey, Phoebe Cates, Kevin Kline, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Alan Cumming, Jane Adams, Jennifer Beals & John C. Reilly | |
Performer: | Michael Panes, Mina Badie, Karen Kilgariff, Matt Malloy, John Benjamin Hickey & Denis O'Hare | |
Directed by | Alan Cumming & Jennifer Jason Leigh | |
Screenwriting by | Alan Cumming & Jennifer Jason Leigh | |
Composition by | Michael Penn | |
Produced by | Alan Cumming, Jennifer Jason Leigh & Joanne Sellar | |
Director of Photography: | John Bailey | |
Executive Production by | Andrew Hurwitz |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
The best thing that one can say about The Anniversary Party is that it raises more questions about its central characters than it can possibly answer -- which may weaken it as a drama but not as a search for truth.
Chicago Reader
...because Cumming and Leigh avoid most (though not all) of the easy choices common to first-time writers and directors, the movie stays on the right side of entertaining.
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DVDJournal.com
Rating: 2.5/5 --
The result is something like being stuck at an audition for someone else's play, which you haven't read, won't invest in, and don't care too much about.
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Washington Post
...An articulate, acutely observant film....The movie has such finely woven performances that the best scenes project a convincing illusion of spontaneity...
New York Times
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Leigh and Cumming prove to be adept writers and, like many actors-turned-directors, are excellent at eliciting fine performances from their fellow thespians.
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MovieFreak.com
...A relationship film of bracing laughs....This PARTY probes emotional wounds most Hollywood films dodge...
Rolling Stone
Rating: B --
... it's fascinating to search for these characters' hearts under the layers of makeup, denial, disguise, excuses, fantasies, and ego.
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Looking Closer
Product Description:
To celebrate their sixth anniversary, successful novelist Joe Therrian (Alan Cumming) and his wife, famous Hollywood actress Sally (Jennifer Jason Leigh), invite their friends over for a party. Sally and Joe have only recently reconciled after a separation, and the strain in their relationship reveals itself as the party progresses. An especially difficult topic is Joe's casting of trendy young actress Skye Davidson (Gwyneth Paltrow) in a film based on his latest novel--a role that might have gone to Sally. Also present are the Therrians's neurotic friends: the insecure director Mac (John C. Reilly) and his neurotic wife Clair (Jane Adams), movie star Cal Gold (Kevin Kline) and his wife Sophia (Phoebe Cates)--who has given up her career to support their children, and the next door neighbors, who have their own problems. The result is truly a night to remember.
Jennifer Jason Leigh and Alan Cumming cowrote and codirected THE ANNIVERSARY PARTY, casting their friends in the lead roles, and shooting on digital video to give the film more intimacy and freedom than mainstream Hollywood dramas. Featuring fresh, honest acting from its ensemble and brilliant performances from Leigh and Cumming, THE ANNIVERSARY PARTY is a hilarious look at life and love.
Jennifer Jason Leigh and Alan Cumming cowrote and codirected THE ANNIVERSARY PARTY, casting their friends in the lead roles, and shooting on digital video to give the film more intimacy and freedom than mainstream Hollywood dramas. Featuring fresh, honest acting from its ensemble and brilliant performances from Leigh and Cumming, THE ANNIVERSARY PARTY is a hilarious look at life and love.