Director: Olivia Wilde
A dinner party goes sideways in "The Invite," a 2026 dark comedy from director Olivia Wilde about a marriage tested by one very strange night.
What is The Invite about?
Joe and Angela are struggling to keep their relationship afloat, and hosting is the last thing on their minds. Curiosity gets the better of them anyway when the couple upstairs — unsettling, magnetic, impossible to read — turns up at their door asking to be let in for the evening. What starts as an awkward attempt at hospitality slides into something far stranger as the night wears on, old resentments surface, and buried impulses the two thought they had under control start pushing back to the surface. By sunrise, Joe and Angela are left facing a version of their marriage neither of them expected to see.
Cast & crew
Seth Rogen and Olivia Wilde headline as the couple at the center of the chaos, with Edward Norton and Penélope Cruz rounding out the cast as the neighbors whose visit changes everything. Wilde, who also directs, keeps the ensemble's chemistry off-balance in a way that suits the story's tonal swings between comedy and unease.
Context & significance
Released in 2026, "The Invite" runs 107 minutes and holds a 5.6 rating on IMDb. It sits in the same lane as other one-location relationship thrillers, using a single dinner party as a pressure cooker for everything a marriage has been avoiding saying out loud. American production, contemporary setting, no supernatural pretense — just two people, a strange invitation, and a night that won't stay contained.
Where & how to watch
"The Invite" is available to watch on K-Time with a free account login — no subscription details needed to browse the page itself. K-Time's interface is built around a Farsi-first experience for the Iranian diaspora, so browsing, searching, and reading up on a title like this one feels native in either language before you ever press play.