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Perfect Strangers (2016)

Perfect Strangers poster
Original title
Perfetti sconosciuti
Directed by
Paolo Genovese
Genre
drama film, comedy film
Country
Italy
Runtime
1h 37m
Rated
13
Rating
7.9 of 10 from 4,648 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of longtime friends gather for a dinner party. They decide to play a game where they share every phone call and message aloud. This leads to unexpected revelations about their private lives.

tenseintimatesuspensefulrevealingdarkly comiccharacter-drivenuncomfortablethought-provoking

What happens

Perfect Strangers (Italian: Perfetti sconosciuti [perˈfɛtti skonoʃˈʃuːti]) is a 2016 Italian psychological comedy-drama film directed and co-written by Paolo Genovese. It was released in Italy on 11 February 2016. The film was a critical and commercial success, winning the David di Donatello in the Best Film Category and grossing more than €16 million in Italy.. As of January 2024, the film was recognised as the most remade film by Guinness World Records, with productions in 24 different languages. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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