Olivia Wilde's The Invite is a four-character comedy of (ill)manners starring Wilde and Seth Rogan as San Francisco homemaker/artist Angela and music professor Joe and Penelope Cruz and Edward Norton as their new neighbors therapist Piña and interior designer Hawk. The four gather over dinner for reasons that aren't altogether clear at first but we disregard once the quartet settles into an evening of discovery.
The film's spankingly good screenplay by Cesc Gay, Will McCormack and Rashida Jones rips and snorts with barbs and indignation (Angela and Hawk) and much sexy provocation (Piña and Hawk).
It is not quite true that nothing is as it first appears; in fact, the audience's likely suppositions about these couples will be on the money, I think. What is surprising is the kind of twists and turns these deliriously damaged people take over the course of their evening together
The Invite leaves us to wonder if Sammy Cahn was right:
Love and marriage, love and marriage
Go together like a horse and carriage
This I tell ya, brother
Ya can't have one without the other
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