The Anniversary Party

The Anniversary Party (2001)

It's not a party until something gets broken.

While celebrating their reconciliation and six years of marriage, American actress Sally Nash and British novelist Joe Therrian receive their close friends, some colleagues and their next door neighbors in a party. Under the effect of Ecstasy, revelations are disclosed and relationships deteriorate among the group.

Date of release
2001-06-09
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (88)
Runtime
1h 55m
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Director
Alan Cumming, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Los Angeles

The Anniversary Party is a 2001 American comedy drama film written, directed, produced by, and starring Jennifer Jason Leigh and Alan Cumming, both making their respective feature directorial debuts. It is Phoebe Cates's final film appearance before her retirement.

Production

In an episode of the Sundance Channel series Anatomy of a Scene, the filmmakers discussed the project at length. Because of conflicting schedules, there was a period of only 19 days in which the entire cast—consisting of friends and actors with whom Leigh and Cumming previously had worked—would be available for filming.

The order in which the toasts were made was determined before the scene was filmed, although with the exception of that offered by Skye, they were improvised rather than scripted.

Retired actress Phoebe Cates returned to acting for this film as a favor to her friend, director Jennifer Jason Leigh.

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