The Anniversary Party (2001)

A good movie

“To be honest, it is another rather obscure feature and I wonder how I actually ended up watching the damned thing. My guess is that I decided to check it out because there was such an interesting cast involved (Alan Cumming, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Parker Posey, Phoebe Cates, Kevin Kline, John C. Reilly, Jennifer Beals, Gwyneth Paltrow). Anyway, apparently, the whole thing was some kind of pet-project for Alan Cumming and Jennifer Jason Leigh as they wrote and directed together this movie and they also played the main characters. This movie would be also the last appearance of Phoebe Cates, it was also her first movie in 7 long years. Anyway, concerning the movie itself, even though it was nothing really ground-breaking, I thought it was a decent watch. Indeed, you might wonder how it would ” read more

35 From 1: My Favorite Films From 2001 (35 movies items)

" The Anniversary is one of those great movies that seems to have gone underneath the radar for everyone else. A Hollywood anniversary party that shows how underlying suppressed feelings can just suddenly bubble up and reveal themselves to those who spend years immersing themselves into the Tinseltown culture of shallowness and the L.A. style of distorted political correctness. "