At long last, Olivia Wilde‘s The Invite is about to open. The very first showings will happen on Thursday, 6.25, but — but! — only if you live in a big-ass city. A24 has decided that suburbanites aren’t hip enough to show up in sufficient numbers, and as far as I can discern The Invite isn’t even booked to play Connecticut a week or two later.
A24 to suburban schlubbos: Sorry but we don’t trust you. You’re too slow, too lazy, too myopic…you lack a sense of adventure!
Why does A24 feel this way? Because The Invite is about a swinging couple (Ed Norton, Penelope Cruz) inviting their married downstairs neighbors (Seth Rogen, Wilde) to swap or whatever, and they’re convinced that suburban rubes would be turned off by the idea or, God forbid, the reality of Cruz going down on Rogen.
If I was Cruz there’s no way I’d be down with having any kind of sex with Rogen. No way on God’s green earth.