The movie is about a dinner party, where seven friends decide to play a dangerous game that may change the course of everything. In this game, everyone begins to share the content of each text message, email and phone call to each other, but it seems that everything that is mysterious will appear in those moments.
The delicious promise is that this dinner party will be a feast for the audience, a series of embarrassing revelations which are entertaining if you are in your comfy cinema seat, but traumatic if you are at the table
A relationship parable for the digital age, Perfect Strangers pits our deceitful natures against our dependence on smartphones, to mostly engaging effect.
It might have been nastier in the hands of a less experienced director but Genovese handles it with delicacy. They might all be liars, but who's going to throw the first stone?