"PARK CITY, Utah - As the opening credits to "The Invite" begin to roll, the audience sees Olivia Wilde stopping by Molinari Delicatessen for jamon. Then, Seth Rogen sits, despondent, in the auditorium of A.P. Giannini Middle School in the Outer Sunset before schlepping his folding bike onto BART. Finally, he pedals up a steep hill alongside cable car tracks and then drags his bike into an apartment with a funky tiled bathroom, which is just cramped enough to feel like San Francisco."
"As the opening credits roll, the film begins with an Oscar Wilde quote - "One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry" - with Joe and Angela as a perfect case study in domestic unrest. Rogen plays a disaffected music teacher whose brief success as a rock star taunts him in the form of an unused music studio and dusty piano."
Olivia Wilde's film The Invite opens with San Francisco vignettes before centering almost entirely inside Joe and Angela's apartment. The plot follows a tense dinner party between two couples: Joe and Angela (Wilde and Seth Rogen) and their upstairs neighbors Hawk and Pina (Edward Norton and Penélope Cruz). The screenplay, by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack, adapts the 2020 Spanish film Sentimental. The story examines domestic unrest and marital dissatisfaction, portraying Joe as a disaffected music teacher haunted by past success and Angela as a stay-at-home mom who fills her time with thrifting and home furnishings. The film premiered to packed Sundance audiences.
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