Screening of Olivia Wilde's dark dinner-table comedy 'The Invite', with Seth Rogen, Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton, shown subtitled.
The Invite is showing at the Electric Palace Cinema on Thursday 12 November, with a morning screening from 11:00 to 13:00. It's a dark dinner-table comedy written, directed by, and starring Olivia Wilde, who also takes a role in front of the camera. She's joined by Seth Rogen, Penélope Cruz, and Edward Norton, so there's a fair bit of star power gathered around one table.
The story centres on Joe, an East Bay music associate, who finds out his wife Angela has invited their upstairs neighbours, Pina and Hawk, over for dinner. It's a done deal Angela has planned down to the last detail, and Joe is just finding out. When the couple actually arrives, the night takes an unexpectedly titillating turn, and the dinner party doesn't exactly go as planned. It's one of those small-room comedies where the tension builds as the evening goes on, and the whole thing plays out over a single meal.
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It's a 107-minute film, rated 15, and this particular screening is subtitled, so you'll be reading along as much as listening. If you're usually a late-night cinema-goer, this one is a bit of a shift: it's a mid-morning slot on a Thursday, which means you'll be out of your seat by early afternoon rather than late in the evening. The Electric Palace is at 39a High Street, Hastings TN34 3ER, and the film runs from 11:00 to 13:00.
