"All My Friends Hate Me" (2022) #comedy #comedyfilms #friends #friendship

Without any forethought, fanfare or even a trailer, I fell into the BFI funded All My Friends Hate Me purely on the strength of the film’s title and movie poster and very pleasingly, this is what I found:

“Pete” (Tom Stourton) Also known as “Skippy” (my boyhood nickname) and known as such by the small gang of University friends he used to lead or skipper on their regular drunken japes, jaunts and nights out. Firmly seen as “one of the funniest people on the planet”, Pete has invited his old friends to a birthday extravaganza at a remote and luxurious Manor House and despite the surreal and bizarre occurrences he collides with on his error strewn journey, he arrives in the greatest and highest of possible spirits. The years since leaving University have been incredibly fruitful and life affirming for Pete as he’s undertaken charity work with under privileged children and on returning, fallen into both love and a long term serious relationship with “Sonia” (Charly Clive). Now seemingly in both the prime and happiest period of his life, Pete cannot wait as he expectantly awaits the arrival of University friends George, Fig, Archie and Claire but, they also arrive from the pub with a new found friend Harry, and the magnificent Christopher Fairbank is, well, Christopher Fairbank as he sets the tone for a quirky, off kilter, acidic comedy that brilliantly trips the line of pointed, awkward comedy and where nothing is what it appears to be, least of all the friends who finally appear for the long awaited birthday celebrations.

The above is the opening paragraph from my spoiler free review of "All My Friends Hate Me" which I originally penned and published to my Medium blog site on 17th September 2022 and which can be read in full and for free via my Substack blog site linked immediately below:

https://ramblingmusings666.substack.com/p/all-my-friends-hate-me-2022-32082f7c3379

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