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Dinner With Friends

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Dinner With Friends
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1hr 45min
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2001
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HBO Home Video
Synopsis: A happily married couple discover their friends are not as happy as they thought, and they begin to wonder how sound their own relationship can be, in this made-for-cable adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Donald Margulies. Gabe (Dennis Quaid) and Karen (Andie MacDowell) are a pair of wedded food writers who more than a decade ago introduced their close friends Tom (Greg Kinnear) and Beth (Toni Collette). Tom and Beth fell in love and got married, but one night as Gabe and Karen are ... Full Synopsis
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Sharp writing and measured performances save this made-for-cable character study from its own deadly serious tone. An extended meditation on the nature of marriage and the need of married people to see their own compromises and value judgements upheld by those around them, Dinner With Friends would seem hopelessly old-fashioned if it weren't for the nuanced writing of playwright/screenwriter Donald ... Full Review
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Dennis Quaid and Shanna Moakler attend a Los Angeles screening of "Dinner With Friends" on July 28,...
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