Donald Margulies' play, "Dinner with Friends," was adapted and filmed for HBO in 2001. The story of two middle aged couples played by well-known actors (Dennis Quaid and Greg Kinnear) and actresses (Andie MacDowell and Toni Collette). I didn't see the stage play before. The film doesn't make me want to see it much more. The two couples experience a change when one couple splits up after twelve years of marriage and two kids later. The actors and actresses do a fine job and even the scenes in Martha's Vineyard helped enhance the romance. The subject of marriage and divorce is the main subject of the film and relationships with others. Donald Margulies does a fine job in actual writing as being realistic and believable The film is an overall satisfactory drama where couples and friends bicker. One couple (Quaid/MacDowell) appear all but perfect while (Kinnear/Collette) are falling apart. How do you pick up the pieces in the aftermath? How do you go on?
Review of Dinner with Friends
