Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- None
- witty
- sardonic
- tense
- group movie night
- date night
What critics said
Critics broadly view the film as an effective, well-acted black comedy that uses a clever high-concept dinner game to expose relationship hypocrisy and contemporary dependence on phones.
What sets it apart
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The reunited friends begin with an apparently convivial meal, but the phone game progressively turns dinner into a nightmare.
The central game requires every diner to reveal incoming texts and voice messages, making smartphones the engine of escalating conflict.
The revelations challenge marriages, friendships, and sexual assumptions by showing how destabilizing complete transparency can be.
The dinner exposes concealed affairs, mistaken assumptions, marital abuse, and carefully maintained social identities among longtime friends.
Films like Perfect Strangers, and why
The Dinner Game
shared black comedy, dinner-party structure, escalating revelations, and intimate relationship conflicts
Carnage
shared claustrophobic ensemble setting, social performance, concealed secrets, and darkly comic interpersonal tension
The Party
shared single-evening structure, relationship crises, uncomfortable humor, and technology exposing private lives
The Square
shared ensemble black comedy, domestic secrets, marital suspicion, and corrosive social satire
Movie Details
- Director
- Álex de la Iglesia
- Release Date
- 2017-12-01
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Rating
- 6.7 / 10 (694)
Cast
- Belén Rueda
- Eduard Fernández
- Juana Acosta
- Ernesto Alterio
- Dafne Fernández
- Eduardo Noriega
- Pepón Nieto
- Beatriz Olivares
- María Jesús Hoyos
- Gonzalo Torralba
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Disney Plus
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Perfect Strangers about?
- During a lunar-eclipse dinner, a smartphone truth game turns longtime friends' carefully managed relationships into a vicious black-comic reckoning.
- What is Perfect Strangers like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Perfect Strangers as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Perfect Strangers violent?
- No — Ember's analysis finds no violence in Perfect Strangers.
- What did critics think of Perfect Strangers?
- Critics broadly view the film as an effective, well-acted black comedy that uses a clever high-concept dinner game to expose relationship hypocrisy and contemporary dependence on phones.
- Which films are like Perfect Strangers?
- Films with a similar feel include The Dinner Game, Carnage, The Party, and The Square.
- How long is Perfect Strangers?
- Perfect Strangers runs 101 minutes.
- Where can I watch Perfect Strangers?
- In United States, Perfect Strangers streams on Disney Plus.
