Genre: Drama/Comedy
Director: Ana Lily Amirpour
Writer: Emily Glass
Based on the 2016 Italian film Perfect Strangers
Cast: Morena Baccarin, Billy Crudup, Dominc Cooper, Rosamund Pike, Jason Segel, Ian Somerhalder, Amber Tamblyn, Lili-Rose Depp
Plot: Eve (Morena Baccarin) and Paul (Billy Crudup) are having friends over for dinner, though tension is high at home after Eva rifles through the handbag of teen daughter Sophia (Lili-Rose Depp) and finds condoms. Mother-daughter communication is not their strong suit, and besides, guests are coming.
Jeremy (Dominic Cooper) and Jennifer (Rosamund Pike) express little warmth towards each other, which may explain her drinking problem. Sexual sparks are not an issue for Bianca (Amber Tamblyn) and Joel (Ian Somerhalder), relatively new to the marriage game and frequently frisky. Nathan (Jason Segel) was meant to finally present his new girlfriend, but he arrived alone, claiming she's ill.
It's Eva who sends the game to the table, and incoming messages must be read, plus calls placed on speaker. No one is thrilled with the idea, but it would be tantamount to admit there's something to hide, so they agree to play. Joel gets the first message, saying "I want your body," but it's a joke from Paul in the kitchen. Little by little though, uncomfortable truths get revealed:
It turns out that Paul, plastic surgeon, has long been in the dark analysis of his wife, analyst in turn, and that she intends to rebuild her breasts, but the surgery will have to do not the husband but a famous surgeon . Paul also advises his daughter Sophia on the first sexual experience and on this he bought her a box of condoms, without his wife knowing. Bianca is feeling with her ex the knowledge of her husband, but only to help him deal with the complicated relationship he is having with his new partner. Joel, in addition to having a lover pregnant during their last relationship, has a relationship with Eve, wife of Paul. Jeremy maintains an online relationship with another woman, as well as Jennifer has an online relationship with another man, as well as wanting to put the mother-in-law who lives with her and her husband in a nursing home, without the latter knowing nothing. Finally, Nathan reveals to all his homosexuality, which is also the cause for which he lost his teaching position, and during the evening emerges a profound homophobia of the friends present. It turns out that Jennifer, driving drunk, killed a man, but the event took the responsibility of Jeremy in order to avoid imprisonment to his wife.
A night ended, it turns out that in reality the game of mobile phones has never happened, following the decisive opposition of Paul: the guests return home, after what was an ordinary dinner with friends. Everyone returns to their own lies: Nathan is excluded from soccer with an excuse from Jeremy, Joel and Paul; and to the requests of his friends, he promises that at the next opportunity he will present the non-existent Cora (actually his partner Corey). Joel runs the messages of lover Stacy and responds to a message from Eve, who in the meantime takes off the pair of earrings donated by Joel. Jennifer rediscovered the briefs that the virtual lover had asked her to take off for fun and her her husband Jeremy checks the photo sent by her lover.
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