The Invite (2026)
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- Synopsis:
- Joe (Seth Rogen) and Angela's (Olivia Wilde)'s marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbors for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places.
- Actors:
- Edward Norton, Seth Rogen, Olivia Wilde, Penélope Cruz, Skip Howland, Mario Valdez, Rachel Thurow, Mel Powell
- Directors:
- Olivia Wilde
- Producers:
- Ben Browning, Megan Ellison, David Permut
- Writers:
- Will McCormack, Rashida Jones, Cesc Gay
- Aka:
- Приглашение
- Genres:
- Comedy, Drama
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Reviews (2) of The Invite
A Very Good Dinner Party to Have Gatecrashed - The Invite review by griggs
Two couples, one dinner party, and by dessert everyone's marriage is out on the table. I went in expecting a comedy and left thinking about it for days.
Rogen's the one who surprised me most. He plays Joe, a musician who never quite made it and now teaches at a conservatory, and there's a tiredness to him that's more sad than funny. Wilde directs herself well, too — you can see Angela's need to be liked in her face before she says a word. Norton does his usual charm-with-a-crack-in-it thing as Hawk, while Cruz gets the trickiest role of the four and somehow avoids every free-spirited-neighbour cliché going.
My one real gripe is the camera. It keeps rack-focusing between people mid-conversation instead of just using a split diopter filter to hold both in frame, and after a while it left me a bit queasy, like I'd had one drink too many at the party myself. The ending loses its nerve as well, right when it should go for broke. Still, a very good dinner party. Just don't host it yourself.
Well Done - The Invite review by KB
Although it is only four people in an apartment the script is amusing and it is well acted .At first i wasn't sure if i was going to like it but when Norton and Cruz show up it really picks up ( i felt that Cruz felt ever so slightly out of place in it).