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Original Title:
With Friends Like These
Alternate Titles:
Party Pieces
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
With Friends Like These is a reunion with a difference, set in the home of Simon, a hitherto struggling actor and minor celebrity whose treading of the boards for the past twenty years has finally paid off with a lead Hollywood film role. To celebrate he invites seven University friends to a large country house for one extraordinary weekend reunion. Life has been kinder to some than others, and what starts with a veneer of friendly banter and mutual respect soon descends into acrimony and resentment as old rivalries resurface. With all of the frictions between them, will they be friends when the weekend is over…?
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