The Dinner
2017 · United States · 120 min
- Director
- Oren Moverman
- Screenplay
- Oren Moverman
- Producer
- Caldecot Chubb, Lawrence Inglee
- Cinematography
- Bobby Bukowski
Cast
What it is about
On a snowy evening in Dobbs Ferry, New York, two brothers, Paul and Stan Lohman, meet with their wives, Claire and Katelyn, for dinner at an upscale restaurant. Stan, a congressman running for governor, has booked the table with a family matter in mind. Tension among the four builds through the evening as memories of the family's past and Claire's health problems surface. The story poses a moral dilemma about their sons and develops it through increasingly uncomfortable conversations.
How it was made
The project is based on Herman Koch's novel of the same name, adapted for the screen and directed by Oren Moverman. In 2013 Cate Blanchett was attached to an earlier adaptation effort that later led to Moverman. The cast includes Richard Gere, Steve Coogan, Laura Linney, Rebecca Hall and Chloë Sevigny, and Charlie Plummer and Adepero Oduye joined in January 2016. Principal photography began on January 21, 2016, in Dobbs Ferry, then moved to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, including the Gettysburg National Military Park. Bobby Bukowski served as cinematographer.
Reception and legacy
The film premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 10, 2017, and was released in US cinemas on May 5, 2017, by The Orchard. After its Tribeca screening, critics gave it mixed reviews, with Metacritic assigning a score of 57 out of 100. Some critics praised the lead quartet, while others questioned the way the story unfolds. It is the third adaptation of the novel, after the Dutch film Het Diner and the Italian I nostri ragazzi.
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