'' THE INVITE '' : MOVIE REVIEW SNIPPET

Dinner for four [ two very unhappy ]. A tense millennial couple get a wild jolt from their noisy upstairs neighbors.

IT may be true, as Tolstoy posited, that each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.  That you can often still spot an unhappy couple across the room, or just feel that their energy is all wrong.

Such is true with Angela [ Olivia Wilde ] and Joe [ Seth Rogen ], who have been married long enough to have a teenage daughter and a gorgeously decorated double-wide apartment full of piled-up resentment.

Grievance oozes from every conversational pore. One gets mad when the other offers a compliment, because '' couldn't you say that more often ? ''

Their lives are beautiful and stale, gone exactly according to plan and not at all what they imagined. They desperately need a new perspective, or maybe a real good zap.

The shock is about to arrive at the door of their apartment in the form of Pina [Penelope Cruz] and Hawk [ Edward Norton ], the neighbors from upstairs, whose, shall we say, nighttime activities have been a little loud of late.

Joe, upon coming home from work at the lackluster musical conservatory where he teaches, is delighted to discover a spread of cheese and charcuterie on the dining room table.

His pleasure mutates to horror when Angela, who castigates him for '' forgetting the wine'' -announces that the food for these neighbors' imminent arrival. He's sure that she never told him. She insists she had, as she shoves a souffle into the oven. 

Word to the wise : If you're in a movie, or maybe even not in a movie, don't make souffle for guests unless you really, really know what you're doing.

The evening is bound to be a disaster.

!WOW! thanks Alissa Wilkinson.