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Thursday, November 2, 2017

Table 19 (2017)

This is a movie about the people who have been invited to a wedding but who are more or less not expected to show up.  Anna Kendrick says it clearly when she says: if you find yourself in the high teens, stop by.  It is lonely there.  It's far away from the bride's and groom's family tables. In fact it's about as far back as you can get and not be out on the street. It takes a while for everyone at the table in this movie to figure out the common element that resulted in all of them being placed at this particular table. Suffice to say that they all have a problematic relationship with somebody in the wedding party, and that's how they ended up seated in a corner near a restroom.
Everybody at the table has a secret, and in due time the secrets are revealed, often through interactions with table-mates that they've just met. The best part of the film is the middle, where the characters sort of wander off on their own and momentarily forget about the reception they came here to attend.  There are some pearls to be had here, and it is a good, but not great, indie movie.

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