My Dinner with Andre

Oct 11, 1981

1h 50m

★ 7.5

One meal, two men.

Overview

Wally, a struggling playwright and actor, reluctantly agrees to catch up with his old friend Andre, a theater director who disappeared several years prior in order to travel the world. Meeting at a posh Manhattan restaurant, the two share life stories, anecdotes and philosophical musings over the course of an evening meal.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

The Andre Company

Saga Productions Inc.

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Cast

Wallace "Wally" Shawn

Wallace Shawn

Andre

Andre Gregory

Waiter

Jean Lenauer

Bartender

Roy Butler

Coat-Check Girl (uncredited)

Cindy Lou Adkins

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My Dinner with Andre

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