All My Friends Hate Me movie storyline. It’s Pete’s birthday and the old gang from college are throwing him a party out in the country. During what’s meant to be a joyful weekend reunion, Pete finds himself increasingly unnerved by his friends’ inside jokes and snarky comments. As the atmosphere goes from awkward to terrifying to downright surreal, Pete is pushed to the breaking point. Is he being paranoid or is he the butt of some elaborate joke?
Imagine all your cringiest moments of social anxiety, those shaming, smirking memories that lurk in your subconscious ready to burst forth and ruin your day. Now imagine them all rolled together into a movie and you have something approaching the psychological discomfort of All My Friends Hate Me, a not-quite comedy/horror-adjacent drama about a man who finds himself the outcast at his own birthday bash.
Pete (Tom Stourton, who also co-wrote the film with Tom Palmer) is invited to the country house of his best friend from college. The party is in honour of Pete’s birthday, but the centre of attention is Harry (Dustin Demri-Burns), a faintly malevolent local man who attaches himself to the group at the local pub. Andrew Gaynord’s debut feature doesn’t quite hold together, but the atmosphere of twitchy paranoia is horribly effective.
All My Friends Hate Me (2022)
Directed by: Andrew Gaynord
Starring: Georgina Campbell, Christopher Fairbank, Kieran Hodgson, Antonia Clarke, Dustin Demri-Burns, Joshua McGuire, Tom Stourton, Charly Clive, Graham Dickson
Screenplay by: Tom Palmer, Tom Stourton
Production Design by: Frederick Allsop
Cinematography by: Ben Moulden
Film Editing by: Saam Hodivala
Costume Design by: Helen Bolter
Art Direction by: Alice Jacobs
Music by: Will Lowes, Joe Robbins
MPAA Rating: R for language throughout, drug use and brief graphic nudity.
Distributed by: Super LTD
Release Date: March 11, 2022
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