Anniversary

2025 111 min ★ 6.9 Thriller, Drama

When Ellen and Paul’s son Josh introduces his new girlfriend at their 25th anniversary party, no one suspects that it is the beginning of the end for this happy family. The new girlfriend is Liz, Ellen’s former student, who left the university, some years before, after Ellen called her out in class for her radical ideology.

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Cast

Kyle Chandler

Paul Taylor

Diane Lane

Ellen Taylor

Zoey Deutch

Cynthia Taylor

Daryl McCormack

Rob Thompson

Phoebe Dynevor

Elizabeth Nettles

Dylan O'Brien

Josh Taylor

Mckenna Grace

Birdie Taylor

Madeline Brewer

Anna Taylor

Selda Kaya

Gerda

Sky Yang

Moses Ho

Details

Director

Jan Komasa

Screenplay

Lori Rosene-Gambino

Tagline

"What holds them together will tear them apart."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Revenue

$672,711

Production

Lionsgate, Fifth Season, Nick Wechsler Productions, Chockstone Pictures, Churchill Films, Metropolitan Pictures

Reviews

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Manuel São Bento

October 28, 2025

★ 7/10

FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://movieswetextedabout.com/anniversary-movie-review-when-political-ideologies-tear-the-perfect-family-apart/ "Anniversary is an engaging, high-voltage thriller that explores the gradually shocking transformation of a happy family into a destructive and self-destructive force, all due to socio-political ideologies. With a luxury cast delivering memorable perfor...

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Brent Marchant

April 15, 2026

★ 8/10

It’s frightening how quickly, easily and seemingly innocuously circumstances in society can change (and in a wide range of areas, too). One day you’re leading a tranquil, happy life and the next you’re a pariah under the scrutiny of a totalitarian, cult-like sociopolitical movement (conditions to which many of us can probably relate these days). Such is the experience of Ellen and Paul Taylor (Dia...

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Martin Oaks

July 15, 2026

**It’s not polarization... It’s Fascism** A disturbing and prescient political, pseudo-dystopian thriller that uses the disintegration of a wealthy family as a metaphor for the collapse of democracy in the United States. Elisabeth is now part of this family, and she is also the mind behind the successful literary work "The Change"—a rising radical political movement promoting a one-party sys...