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Watch My Dinner with Andre Full Movie

Run Time: 1h 50m.

IMDb: 7.7 / 10.

Release year: 1981.

Story: Two old friends meet for dinner; as one tells anecdotes detailing his experiences, the other notices their differing worldviews.

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 Gregorys seeming abandonment of the pragmatic aspects of life.

Thirty-six year old New York playwright/actor isnt looking forward to the dinner he has scheduled with who he once considered a friend, former Broadway director , who he has not seen in years. Andre left the profession to travel to the far corners of the world. Wally has heard from mutual friends that Andre has "gone crazy" from his experiences. During dinner at an upscale French restaurant, the two old friends largely talk about Andres experiences, which often entailed applying what he knew of improvisation from the theater but applying it to real life, whether or not it be with people associated with the theater in some respect. Emerging from Andres description of those experiences to Wally, the two enter into a philosophical discussion about life on such directly related topics as: if people in western society are living as if in a trance; if one can truly proverbially survive on such mundane and habitual items as chicken and electric blankets, and if not if one can find experiences to get out of the "chicken" diet anywhere if one is only willing to look; if those experiences are meant for that one person or if they are just coincidental to the person; if one should at every moment be striving to do something to be considered purposeful; and if labels are solely a mechanism to have some grounding.

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