The Anniversary Party

The Anniversary Party

★ 5.6IMDb Score
Released:2001-06-09
Duration:115 min
Director:Alan Cumming, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Actors:Alan Cumming, Jennifer Jason Leigh, John Benjamin Hickey, Parker Posey, Phoebe Cates
Production:Fine Line Features, Pas de Quoi, JoAnne Sellar Productions

Overview:

While celebrating their reconciliation and six years of marriage, American actress Sally Nash and British novelist Joe Therrian receive their close friends, some colleagues and their next door neighbors in a party. Under the effect of Ecstasy, revelations are disclosed and relationships deteriorate among the group.

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