Dinner With Friends

Jen and I just celebrated our 12th wedding anniversary last weekend, so it was somewhat fitting that we also recently watched the Norman Jewison movie, Dinner With Friends. Based on the play of the same name, the story revolves around two couples who have been best friends forever but are pushed to the point of 'breaking up' when one of them ends up splitting. Loyalties are divided, friendships are strained and the whole thing is kind of an interesting meditation on marriage and living life with (or possibly without) a long-term partner.

It was actually a movie that I had suggested on several previous occasions but Jen never really paid it any mind until she picked it up and read the summary on the back of the case during a recent library stop. The couple that split in the movie had been together for 12 years so she felt a certain degree of synchronicity or something, I guess. Now that I think about it, we may have watched The Seven Year Itch around our 7th, so maybe it's a numbers thing with her. Or just checking in to see whether or not we're doing better than the movie couples.

I guess it doesn't really matter what Hollywood thinks since we've outlasted most of our friends and extended families' marriages.

Either way, it was a nice, quiet and entertaining show. I'd recommend it for anyone looking for a talky couples movie without the Woddy Allenisms.

Later!

mike