Additional information for The Perfect Host, which has a domestic theatrical release set for July 1, 2011. The film is being distributed by Magnolia Pictures and has not yet been rated. The Perfect Host has a total running time of 93 minutes.
R
USA
G
Japan
NC-16
Singapore
16
Netherlands
16
Germany
93min
Dinner for One - Eine mörderische Party
Germany
El perfecto anfitrión
Spain
O teleios oikodespotis
Greece
Savršeni domaćin
Serbia
January , 2010
USA
July , 2010
Canada
April , 2011
USA
May 07, 2011
Japan
July 01, 2011
USA
August 26, 2011
Spain
September 17, 2011
France
February 27, 2012
Netherlands
June 19, 2012
Netherlands
No taglines exist for this title.
A criminal on the run cons his way into the wrong dinner party where the host is anything but ordinary.
Fugitive John Taylor flees an initially unspecified crime, with a wounded foot. (Flashbacks and news reports reveal he robbed a bank, in collusion with a teller.) He stops in a convenience store for some disinfectant, just moments before it is robbed; he manages to turn the tables on the robber, but she gets away with his wallet. The store's TV identifies John and his car, so he quickly ditches it, proceeding on foot into an expensive neighborhood. With a sob story about being mugged, he gains entry to the house of Warwick Wilson, who is preparing a dinner party. He makes small talk and drinks red wine while trying to figure out his next move, and how to keep his lies from being found out. When the radio news makes an announcement about John, he angrily shushes Warwick, revealing himself. John intends to kill Warwick, and tells him so, also forcing him to call his guests to cancel. Suddenly, John keels over; the wine has been drugged, and Warwick is not the person he seems.When he comes to, John is tied to a chair, and the party is in swing -- but all the guests Warwick is interacting with are figments of Warwick's imagination. Warwick takes a Polaroid of John and reveals a scrapbook of his past dinner parties, each with a murder victim, and a timeline of things Warwick is going to do to him. As the night wears on, John is further terrorized, drugged and incapacitated, and learns various things about Warwick's strange lifestyle.John and Warwick play chess, with the prize being John's freedom; John, who is an excellent player, wins. Warwick lets John go as agreed but taunts him before he can leave, calling him worthless and secondary. John takes one of the swords on display in Warwick's living room and stabs him with it, but it proves to be a collapsible prop knife, and so Warwick knocks John out. When he regains consciousness again, they are in Warwick's bathroom, and Warwick cuts John's throat.John's body is left outside with the trash. He wakes up and discovers that most of his injuries are fake; Warwick is a master of movie makeup. Detective Morton arrives at Warwick's door -- Warwick is actually a police lieutenant, who is working John's robbery. Meanwhile, while waiting, John gets suspicious of Simone, the bank teller he was working with, and discovers she made alternate travel arrangements out of Los Angeles that don't include him. John locates Simone in a parking garage, taking her switch car and the money, leaving her to be captured by the detectives. Warwick stops John from leaving, and blackmails him for the robbery take, leaving him with only a couple thousand to get past the Mexican border.A couple of months later, Detective Morton receives a letter from Mexico -- it's a Polaroid from the dinner party of Warwick and John together. A suspicious Morton confronts Warwick, who blows it off, but when Morton persists, Warwick invites Morton to a dinner party.
Nick Tomnay
Director(s)
Nick Tomnay
Krishna Jones
Writer(s)
Rick Feder
line producer
Sarah Johnson
associate producer
Stacey Testro
producer
Mark Victor
producer
Martin Zoland
executive producer
Producer(s)
John Swihart
Composer(s)
Warwick Wilson
David Hyde Pierce
John Taylor
Clayne Crawford
Roman
Tyrees Allen
Rupert
Cooper Barnes
Simone De Marchi
Megahn Perry
Chelsea
Annie Campbell
Cathy Knight
Helen Reddy
Monica (as Indira Gibson)
Indira G. Wilson
Storekeeper (as George Kee Cheung)
George Cheung
Thief (as Brooke 'Mikey' Anderson)
Brooke Anderson
Car Rental Worker
Cheryl Francis Harrington
Girl at Party
Amanda Payton
Det. Valdez
Joseph Will
Det. Morton
Nathaniel Parker
Man in Polaroid
Greg Brown
Punk on Car
Mike Foy
TV Newscaster
Tracy Britton
Party Guest
Cal Rein
Party Guest
Daisy Castro
Party Guest
Lynda Valliche
Party Guest
Hayden Victor
Party Guest
Hannah Cosgrove
Party Guest
Bret Victor
Party Guest
Adam Absinthe
Party Guest
James McAuley
Party Guest
Scott Manson
Party Guest
Allan Yates
Party Guest
Tim Wagg
Party Guest
Jason Tokoro
Party Guest
Jessie Lewis
Party Guest
Nurse Wagg
Party Guest
Maple Navarro
Party Guest
Jamila Jackson
Party Guest
Timothy Edmond
Party Guest
Eden Heigel
Party Guest
Dishanya Weerasinha
Female Radio Broadcaster (voice)
Daisy Tormé
Male Radio Broadcaster (voice)
Ivan Allen
Guard (uncredited)
Rayford Sewell
Party Guest (uncredited)
Joanna Theobalds
Director(s)
Krishna Jones
Writer(s)
line producer
Sarah Johnson
associate producer
Stacey Testro
producer
Mark Victor
producer
Martin Zoland
executive producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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