Reunion takes place on the night of, and aftermath of, the twenty-year reunion of the Ridgeview High School class of 2001. The party is being hosted at the home of successful hedge fund manager Mathew Danbury, and the attendees include local police officer Evan West, his best friend Ray Hammond, journalist Jasmine Park, weirdo Vivian Chase, aspiring Congresswoman Amanda Tanner, former popular girl Meagan Cooper, and their former teacher, Mr. Theodore Buckley.
During the reunion, Evan and Jasmine start to form a romantic connection, while Ray keeps making advances on an unreceptive Meagan until the pair have a loud argument. Mathew claims to be happily married but flirts with many of the women at the party, including Meagan. Later, Mathew becomes the mascot of their high school football team and dances with everyone. Vivian interrupts the festivities to make a speech about how Mathew tormented her during high school. A severe snowstorm forces most of the attendees to leave the party early, but Evan, Ray, Jasmine, Vivian, Amanda, and Mr. Buckley are all too drunk to drive and elect to stay at Mathew’s house.
In the morning, Jasmine discovers Mathew’s dead body in his bedroom, shot once in the chest. The phone lines are down from the storm, preventing the group from phoning for help, and there’s no evidence that anyone has left the house since the snowstorm ended. Jasmine and Amanda both discover late-night sexts from Mathew, from which Evan deduces that Mathew was killed after the snowstorm ended, suggesting that one of the people in the house is the killer. It quickly becomes apparent that everyone had a motive to kill Mathew dating back to their bad high school experiences.
Evan and Ray investigate the scene of the murder, noting the window that was open during the snowstorm and a bullet hole in the wardrobe door. Ray finds an earring in the wardrobe and chooses to hide it from Evan. Later, the group elects to search one another’s pockets, and Evan discovers the earring, which Ray claims he found on the dance floor.
In trios, they search the house for clues, and Amanda is discovered trying to hide a VHS tape from high school of her and Mathew poisoning another student. Amanda says that someone contacted her with knowledge of the tape and blackmailed her into shutting off the power at a certain time. The group makes plans to sleep in separate locked rooms for their own protection.
Reunion is a 2024 American comedy mystery film directed by Chris Nelson and starring Lil Rel Howery, Billy Magnussen, Jillian Bell, Jamie Chung, Michael Hitchcock, Nina Dobrev, and Chace Crawford. The film is set during the aftermath of a twenty-year high school reunion, when an obnoxious popular student is murdered and his former classmates are left to figure out who among them is responsible.
Reunion (2024)
Directed by: Chris Nelson
Starring: Lil Rel Howery, Billy Magnussen, Jillian Bell, Jamie Chung, Michael Hitchcock, Nina Dobrev, Chace Crawford, Dianne Doan, Cassandra Blai, Mickey Schiff, Amy Davidson, Nina Pedrad
Screenplay by: Jake Emanuel, Willie Block
Production Design by: Paula Loos
Cinematography by: Dino Parks
Film Editing by: Rick Grayson
Costume Design by: Ernesto Martinez
Set Decoration by: Kelly Fallon
Art Direction by: Amanda Campanaro
Music by: Fil Eisler
MPAA Rating: R for language throughout, sexual content, some violent images and brief graphic nudity.
Distributed by: Republic Pictures
Release Date: 13, 2024 (Brazil), June 28, 2024 (United States)
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