My Dinner with Andre
(1981)
★ 7.5 IMDb · 477 votes
Year: 1981
Runtime: 112 мин
Country: United States of America
Director: Louis Malle
Cast: Andre Gregory, Уоллес Шон, Jean Lenauer, Roy Butler, Cindy Lou Adkins
Plot
Wally, a struggling playwright and actor, reluctantly agrees to catch up with his old friend Andre, a theater director who disappeared several years prior in order to travel the world. Meeting at a posh Manhattan restaurant, the two share life stories, anecdotes and philosophical musings over the course of an evening meal.
Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory, apparently playing themselves, share their lives over the course of an evening meal at a restaurant. Gregory, a theater director from New York, is the more talkative of the pair. He relates to Shawn his tales of dropping out, traveling around the world, and experiencing the variety of ways people live, such as a monk who could balance his entire weight on his fingertips. Shawn listens avidly, but questions the value of Gregory's seeming abandonment of the pragmatic aspects of life.