Fun Mom Dinner (2017)

A bit uneven but yes, it's fun. Toni Collette, Bridget Everett, Molly Shannon, and Katie Aselton are preschool moms whose night goes awry and the men in their lives are played by Rob Huebel, Adam Scott, and Adam Levine. There's some slapstick (to be expected with the presence of bawdy Everett) but also thoughtfulness.

Directed by Alethea Jones from a script by Julie Rudd, whose husband Paul Rudd has a cameo, it's a pleasant way to spend slightly less than an hour and a half.

I don't remember the music by Julian Wass, but here's a list of the songs, twelve of which are available on this compilation on Spotify.

Collette was last blogged for Nightmare Alley, Everett for Patti Cake$ (I also loved her in five episodes of Inside Amy Schumer and her starring role in the series Somebody Somewhere), Shannon for Spin Me Round, and Wass for Other People.

This is Jones' feature directorial debut, with plenty of TV episodes, including two of Dead to me, before and after this project. Rudd has not had any other scripts produced so far.

Sent back to the kitchen by Rotten Tomatoes' critics, averaging 32%, and audiences at 35, Jack and I still did not hate it. We watched it on Netflix at a hotel when our baseball game was rained out October 13.