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GenreComedy & Drama
RatedR
Runtime1 hr 47 mins
ReleasedJune 26, 2026
StreamingSee Where to Watch
DirectorOlivia Wilde
StarringSeth Rogen, Olivia Wilde, Penélope Cruz
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The Invite (2026)
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| The Invite's Details | |
| Genre | Comedy & Drama |
| Rated | R |
| Released | 01/24/2026 (Sundance); 06/26/2026 (United States) |
| Streaming | See Where to Watch on this page. |
| Running Time | 1 hr 47 mins |
| Budget | $15M (reported) |
| Box Office | Updated daily from Box Office Mojo. See the numbers below. |
| Based On | Sentimental by Cesc Gay |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| The Invite's Interests | |
| General | Dinner parties, thin ceilings, jazz records, awkward small talk, brutal honesty. |
| Music | Devonté Hynes. Jazz chords for a guy who teaches them. |
| Movies | The People Upstairs (2020). The Spanish original from Cesc Gay. |
| Television | Curb Your Enthusiasm. Joe would fit right in. |
| Heroes | Joe. Brutally honest, somehow charming about it. |
| The Invite's Crew | |
| Director | Olivia Wilde |
| Writers | Will McCormack, Rashida Jones |
| Producers | Ben Browning, Megan Ellison, David Permut |
| Cinematography | Adam Newport-Berra |
| Music | Devonté Hynes |
| Edited By | Yorgos Mavropsaridis, Anthony Boys |
| Production | FilmNation Entertainment, Permut Presentations, Annapurna Pictures |
| Distributed By | A24 |
Grown-ups only on this one, so the plot summary stops at the front door. Joe, a jazz band teacher, and his wife Angela invite the upstairs neighbors to dinner, partly because Joe has had it with the noise through the ceiling. Angela forgot the wine. Joe can’t stop telling the truth. The guests love that, and they came with a plan of their own. It wobbles in the final act, where the big emotional turns arrive faster than the film earns them. It’s basically a stage play with nice lighting. But what a play. Seth Rogen is on top of his game as a grump who can’t fake a smile. Olivia Wilde directs and plays Angela as someone desperate to be liked. Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton are smooth, odd and very funny. It made $60.6 million worldwide on a reported $15M. An 8.4 because it’s sharp and painfully relatable about a marriage running on fumes. $5,663 says you hear the neighbors through the wall tonight and decide never to invite them over.
What works: Seth Rogen, Olivia Wilde, Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton are all terrific, and the dinner-table sparring is funny and uncomfortably true.
What doesn’t: The final act rushes its emotional turns so they don’t feel fully earned, and the musical score pushes too hard.
Who it’s for: Adults who love talky, uncomfortable dinner-party comedies about marriage, strictly after the kids are in bed.
Spoilers
The night turns into an impromptu therapy session, with Pina, a therapist, getting Joe and Angela to admit how much they resent each other. They seem to agree to separate, then come back from the kitchen to find the neighbors have quietly gone, and Joe finally sits down at the piano he refused to play, with Angela joining him.
San Francisco. Joe (Seth Rogen) teaches jazz band at a conservatory and comes home to a surprise: his wife Angela (Olivia Wilde) has invited the upstairs neighbors, Pina (Penélope Cruz) and Hawk (Edward Norton), over for dinner. Joe and Angela already bicker about everything, and lately it's the noise that comes through the ceiling at night. Joe wants to confront the neighbors. Angela wants to impress them and orders him to stay calm. The guests ring the bell mid-argument. Wilde also directs, from a script by Will McCormack and Rashida Jones. One hundred seven minutes, one very long dinner party.
Anyone with loud neighbors and strong opinions. Bring dessert, the hosts were not ready.
| Seth Rogen | Joe |
| Olivia Wilde | Angela |
| Penélope Cruz | Pina |
| Edward Norton | Hawk |
- (cur | prev) 14:30, 18 October 2026 DataBot +440 Numbers refreshed: Worldwide box office $60.6M; Domestic box office $26.1M; Opening weekend $379K; Profit / loss (est.) +$7.8M; Rotten Tomatoes 96%; box office chart updated; Rotten Tomatoes critics 96% (292 reviews); Metacritic 82 / 100; PostTrak audience 89% positive; IMDb users 7.4 / 10 (85,913 votes); movie.guru score 8.8.
- (cur | prev) 12:00, 18 October 2026 DataBot +2,000 Profile created from Wikipedia and Box Office Mojo: cast, crew, release dates, budget, official trailer.