Dinner with Friends

Reminiscent of films like The Big Chill and Past Lives, DINNER WITH FRIENDS follows eight longtime friends as they meet up for dinner parties — sometimes after months have passed — that often end in surprise announcements and hurt feelings. Sasha Leigh Henry, alongside frequent collaborator Tania Thompson, uses realistic and mundane topics like caring for aging parents or sitting in city traffic, to explore the dramatic upheavals of adulthood we each face. Fittingly, we only ever see the group together, with the exception of the first scenes introducing long-married couple Joy (Tattiawna Jones) and Malachi (Alex Spencer) as they debate whether to put in the effort to reunite the friend group. Once together, inside jokes abound, and long-held tensions explode.