Intervention (The)

Uptight Annie (expertly played by Melanie Lynskey) has gathered her friends together at her family's pristine Savannah estate in order to stage a "marriage intervention" and convince her sister Ruby (How I Met Your Mother's Cobie Smulders) and Ruby's husband (Vincent Piazza) to divorce. Annie, along with her other sister, Jessie (Clea Duvall), has decided that Ruby's relationship has become so irreparably toxic that it's infecting their entire circle of friends.

Joined by Annie's easygoing fiancé, Jessie's partner Sarah (Natasha Lyonne), as well as the reluctant Jack and his sprightly 22-year-old girlfriend, the participants make fumbling attempts to jump-start the intervention throughout a booze-fuelled weekend, initially neglecting to deal with their own vices and regrets. Eventually, however, this group of acutely sympathetic characters abandon the facade of being fine and embrace the reality of fine-adjacent.

Tipping her hat to The Big Chill as inspiration for her directorial debut, Clea Duvall (But I'm a Cheerleader, Argo) brilliantly balances the performances of her ensemble cast in this dramatic comedy and addresses how the more we focus on other people's lives and judge them, the further away from ourselves we become.

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