The Perfect Host

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  • Opened July 1, 2011 
  • 1 hr 33 min
  • R | language, some violent content and brief sexual material

  • Warwick Wilson is the consummate host. He carefully prepares for a dinner party, the table impeccably set and the duck perfectly timed for 8:30 p.m. John Taylor is a career criminal. He's just robbed a bank and needs to get off the streets. He finds himself on Warwick's doorstep posing as a friend of a friend, new to Los Angeles, who's been mugged and lost his luggage. As the wine flows and the evening progresses, we become deeply intertwined in the lives of these two men and discover just how deceiving appearances can be. With outstanding performances by David Hyde Pierce and Clayne Crawford, cowriter/director Nick Tomnay takes us on a suspense-filled ride where nothing is as it seems. THE PERFECT HOST is a slippery psychological thriller that exposes true human nature and reveals just how far we're willing to go to satisfy our needs. Full synopsis

  • Cast: David Hyde Pierce, Clayne Crawford, Nathaniel Parker, Helen Reddy, Megahn Perry, Joseph Will
  • Director: Nick Tomnay
  • Genres: Art House/Foreign

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A BATTLE OF WITS BETWEEN 2 PSYCHOPATHS!

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MOVIE WAS INTRIGUING AND FUNNY...SOMETHING I HAVENT SEEN B4!...

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The Hollywood Reporter
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Tomnay skillfully shifts the film's initial tone from suspense to dark comedy so that the transition never feels forced. Read full review

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Movieline
| Michelle Orange

You'll have to hang on to something to get through the hairpins in The Perfect Host, a chamber piece hostage thriller black comedy undone less by its twists than by the stretches of bad road between them. Read full review

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Rolling Stone
| Peter Travers

The dialogue is witty and spiked with delicious malice. At least it is when Pierce delivers it. Read full review

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New York Daily News
| Elizabeth Weitzman

Some of the shocks are way too broad, and the enclosed perspective suggests the material would better suit a play. But Crawford radiates charisma, and Pierce sells even the nuttiest moments. Read full review

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David Hyde Pierce as Warwick Wilson and Clayne Crawford as John Taylor in ``The Perfect Host.''