The swing is the thing as a suburban couple discover their neighbours like to share in The Invite.
Is swinging back? We only just got HBO‘s DTF St Louis, with Jason Bateman, David Harbour, and Linda Cardellini caught up in a tangled web of extramarital sex and murder, and now here comes The Invite, in which Seth Rogen and Olivia Wilde get up to… well, let’s just say there’s probably less murder. Probably.
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What’s the plot?
Directed by Olivia Wilde from a screenplay by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack, The Invite is a remake of the 2020 Spanish sex comedy, The People Upstairs. With their marriage fraying at the edges, suburban couple Joe and Angela invite their neighbours, sexologist Pína and retired firefighter… uh… Hawk, apparently, to dinner. Angela is eager to make friends, Joe finds them unbearable annoying and smug, and things are looking tense, when Pína and Hawk reveal just how friendly they’d like to be…
The original was a huge hit and has been remade a ton of times, with versions released in Italy, Switzerland, Russia, and South Korea (presumably France has no need to import sex comedies), so it’ll be interesting to see how the US version stacks up.
Who’s in it?
- Seth Rogen as Joe.
- Olivia Wilde as Angela.
- Penélope Cruz as Pína.
- Edward Norton as Hawk. Hawk? Fair enough…
When’s it out?
The Invite is getting a US release in July, so expect a local release in the same ballpark.
What’s the vibe?
Reviews following the film’s SXSW premiere have been hugely positive, with The Hollywood Reporter calling it “…a smart, sophisticated and incisively acted adult entertainment that savages the crumbling institution of marriage, dangles the promise of sexual rescue and then brings the walls crashing down in a bitter reckoning that seems irreversible”. Olivia Wilde’s directorial debut, Booksmart, was fantastic, while her second, Don’t Worry Darling, was a bit of a let down. Hopefully The Invite is more in line with the former than the latter.
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