Why go to an awkward dinner party when you can watch one.
Join Salma Hayek in her emotional and highly entertaining ?Beatriz at Dinner? that hits theaters on Friday. Directed by Miguel Arteta from a script by Mike White, Hayek stars as a personal masseuse who winds up the unexpected houseguest of her wealthy clients. The film played well at its Sundance debut in January, the same week Trump took office, thanks to its starkly drawn parallels between the working and upper class ? specifically, between the meek masseuse and the arrogant, Warren Buffet-sized mogul she happens to be dining with. While the film works on deeper levels, it?s also a pleasant horror to watch Beatriz defy phony social customs like small talk, avoiding money, religion and politics and other things your mother told you never to do in public.
