The Anniversary Party (2001)

Directors

Alan Cumming, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Cast

Alan Cumming, Jennifer Jason Leigh, John C. Reilly, Kevin Kline, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Beals, John Benjamin Hickey, Parker Posey, Phoebe Cates, Denis O'Hare, Mina Badie, Michael Panes

The story

Sally Nash and Joe Therrian are a Hollywood couple celebrating their sixth wedding anniversary shortly after reconciling following a period of separation. He is a novelist who is about to direct the screen adaptation of his most recent bestseller; she is an actress he has opted not to cast in the lead role, despite the fact it's partly based on her, because he feels she's too old for the part. This decision, coupled with an ongoing dispute about their barking dog Otis with their strait-laced, non-industry neighbors, clean-and-sober writer Ryan and interior decorator Monica Rose, has resulted in an undercurrent of tension between the two…

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