Change of Plans

Name: Change of Plans
Director: Danièle Thompson
Released: 2009

3.00

Synopsis

So called friends at a dinner party end up acting like a dysfunctional family.

70
The New York Times
Diverting, hectic entertainment, which refuses to take anything too seriously, staking out a middle ground between melodrama and farce.
70
Salon
Change of Plans may not be earth-shattering cinema, but it's masterfully structured and edited (by Sylvie Landra) with a first-rate cast.
67
The A.V. Club
Thompson's cast is too large for her to make the best use of her ingenious story-structure.
60
Boxoffice Magazine
The Thompsons have a tough task to explain all the machinations in the film's first half but once the scene is set it unravels in an entertaining way, jumping forward a year--but always with flashbacks to that infamous dinner party.
50
Village Voice
A comedy of manners in need of Ritalin.
50
Variety
Two's company, three's a crowd and eight is definitely way more than enough in writer-director Daniele Thompson's mismanaged comic ensembler, Change of Plans. Less a crowdpleaser and more a headscratcher than her previous hit, "Avenue Montaigne."
50
New York Post
The acting by Seigner, Marina Hands, Karin Viard, Patrick Bruel and other French notables is first-rate, although their characters and what they have to say are trite.
50
The Hollywood Reporter
The next time you're invited to a French dinner party, you might want to give it a pass, if the tedious proceedings in Change of Plans are any indication.