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Synopsis: A young couple, Peter and Ruby, are married with three children. On a weekend trip a tight-knit group of friends confront them about their constant bickering and propose they divorce. Reacting in anger, the couple clearly realize the truth in what their friends are trying to say; nonetheless, they remember their old feelings for each other and decide instead to strive to improve their relationship. Later, the intervention is turned around on Annie (Lynskey) and her alcohol problem, while she begins to realize that her conspired marriage intervention for Ruby and Peter may have been based on her suppressed doubts about her own impending wedding.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Clea DuVall
Production: Burn Later Productions
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.1
Metacritic:
57
Rotten Tomatoes:
81%
R
Year:
2016
90 min
408 Views


That way they

have the weekend to

process while

they're amongst friends.

Yeah, or it could mess up

the whole weekend.

Well, I'm pretty sure this

whole weekend's been f***ed

before it began, right?

Why are you even here?

But since you insisted on

doing this, i wanted to be here.

Peter has been your best friend for 20 years

and Ruby is Jessie's sister

and my mentee.

She's your mentee?

She's always looked up to me.

I think we should do it tonight after dinner.

Okay, I haven't seen

him in a long time,

but there's no way

they could be that bad.

I've been looking forward

to this all week long.

Let's just pretend

to have a good time, okay?

Oh, you mean like

i do at home?

Well, if I'm

being brutally honest,

Okay, let's move past it.

We're done. Can we do that?

It's done. Okay?

Hi.

Hey!

Sorry, we would've

been here earlier,

Ruby, what happened to your leg?

Need any help with your bags?

Oh, it's broken,

but it's fine. Yeah.

Hi.

Hi.

I can't believe

you broke your leg.

Did you start

coloring your hair?

No.

Hi.

Hi. How are you?

Good to see you.

I'm good, but, oh, my god...

I'm Lola.

- Nice to see you.

- The house is amazing.

Have you checked

on the kids yet?

We just got here,

Peter, so no.

All right, can we?

'Cause we haven't called

since we landed.

Ah, so, just so everyone knows,

there are delicious drinks

being served just out

in back on the porch, so...

Wanna come have a drink?

Uh, I think we should

settle in first before we...

Peter, is there anything else

you wanna micromanage?

I'm fine. I am... all right.

I'd just like to

have one drink.

Everybody's grumpy after

travel. It's not a big deal.

No. Jack, you need to take

off your blinders, okay?

Just look at the situation.

Yeah, we're gonna do this.

No, I'm not saying that i don't

think we should do it at all.

I'm just saying that

with the leg development,

that maybe this is

not the best weekend.

When else are we all

gonna be together?

I mean, we have to do it.

Look, you have to admit,

even after five minutes,

you can feel it.

The oppression,

just the weight,

the burden of

their marital prison.

I mean, it's terrifying.

Yeah, I know, but it's like...

You know the kind

of person who likes

having the mirror

held up to them

so they can better

see the ways in which

they need to improve?

Mmm-hmm.

Ruby is the opposite

of that person.

Mmm-hmm.

I don't know.

I feel very scared.

We can't think

about ourselves right now.

We have to save them.

You can't tell Jessie I'm

smoking. We quit together.

Like I give a sh*t.

Today is mine and Peter's anniversary, so...

Congratulations.

How many years?

A lot. A lot of years.

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Clea DuVall

Clea Helen D'Etienne DuVall (born September 25, 1977) is an American actress, writer, producer, and director. She is best known for her role as Sofie on the HBO television series Carnivàle (2003–05), and for films such as The Faculty (1998), She's All That (1999), But I'm a Cheerleader (1999), Girl, Interrupted (1999), 21 Grams (2003), and The Grudge (2004). She is also known for her roles as Cora Lijek in the Academy Award–winning film Argo (2012), Audrey Hanson on NBC's Heroes (2006–07), Wendy Peyser on FX's American Horror Story: Asylum (2012–13), and Emma Borden on Lifetime's The Lizzie Borden Chronicles (2015). Since 2016, she has played Marjorie on HBO's Veep, for which she has twice been nominated—along with her co-stars—for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series, winning in 2018. In 2016, DuVall made her directional debut with the comedy-drama The Intervention, which she also wrote and co-produced. more…

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