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  • 2001
  • R
  • Fine Line Features
  • 1 h 55 m
  • 2001
  • R
  • Fine Line Features
  • 1 h 55 m

Summary Taking place over the course of one night, The Anniversary Party is a serio-comic, sometimes scathing inspection of a group of friends gathered for a celebration that becomes a scorching dissection of a marriage on the brink. (Fine Line Features)

Directed By: Alan Cumming, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Written By: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Alan Cumming

  • 2001
  • R
  • Fine Line Features
  • 1 h 55 m
  • 2001
  • R
  • Fine Line Features
  • 1 h 55 m

The Anniversary Party

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 30 Critic Reviews
56
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 8 User Ratings
6.6
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Summary Taking place over the course of one night, The Anniversary Party is a serio-comic, sometimes scathing inspection of a group of friends gathered for a celebration that becomes a scorching dissection of a marriage on the brink. (Fine Line Features)

Directed By: Alan Cumming, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Written By: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Alan Cumming

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 30 Critic Reviews
56
50% Positive
15 Reviews
43% Mixed
13 Reviews
7% Negative
2 Reviews

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 30 Critic Reviews
56
50% Positive
15 Reviews
43% Mixed
13 Reviews
7% Negative
2 Reviews

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100
A caustic comedy of Hollywood manners.
By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW
80
Everyone in the cast has his or her solo, and all rise brilliantly to their occasions, notably Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Beals, Mina Badie and a divinely neurotic Jane Adams.
By Richard Schickel FULL REVIEW
70
Cumming and Leigh -- bring to their stylish, incisive and compassionate film an immediacy and a bracing snap.
By Kevin Thomas FULL REVIEW
60
The overlapping dialogue and the comedy of famous people playing self-variations is pure Altman (Leigh, not surprisingly, has worked in three Altman films).
By Kevin Maynard FULL REVIEW
50
When it's all over, one is less compelled to applaud than to give each "character" a sympathetic hug.
By Gregory Weinkauf FULL REVIEW
50
A celebration of the actor's art – but not the dramatist's.
By Stephen Hunter FULL REVIEW
20
I had a hard time maintaining interest in (let along liking) any of these self-involved Hollywood twerps, and scene after scene is a grating mixture of self-aggrandizement and masochism.
By David Edelstein FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 8 User Ratings
6.6
63% Positive
5 Ratings
25% Mixed
2 Ratings
13% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 8 User Ratings
6.6
63% Positive
5 Ratings
25% Mixed
2 Ratings
13% Negative
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Production Company Fine Line Features, Pas de Quoi, Ghoulardi Film Company
Release Date Jun 8, 2001
Duration 1 h 55 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline It's not a party until something gets broken.
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Awards

Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Film Independent Spirit Awards
• 3 Nominations
National Board of Review, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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