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Anniversary
A political family thriller where a celebratory dinner table slowly becomes a stage for dread, warmth curdling into fear. Domestic comfort cracks like glass under a rising, unseen pressure.
Anniversary
Anniversary

"What holds them together will tear them apart."

29 October 2025 United States of America 111 min 6.9 (226)

Director: Jan Komasa

Cast: Kyle Chandler, Diane Lane, Zoey Deutch, Daryl McCormack, Phoebe Dynevor

Drama Thriller Creeping authoritarianism Family under pressure Radicalization and resentment Complicity and denial Generational conflict
Box Office: $672,711

Anniversary — Characters & Cast

Character Analysis

Ellen

Diane Lane

Archetype: Flawed protagonist Key Trait: Principled but proud

Motivation

To protect her family and her principles.

Character Arc

Ellen is confident and intellectual. She is forced to confront how her past actions and certainties feed the threat now facing her family.

Paul

Kyle Chandler

Archetype: Devoted husband Key Trait: Steady, warm

Motivation

To keep his marriage and children safe.

Character Arc

Paul begins as a content patriarch and is tested as events erode the family's security.

Liz

Phoebe Dynevor

Archetype: Antagonist / catalyst Key Trait: Quietly intense

Motivation

Belonging, vindication and power, shaped by her earlier humiliation.

Character Arc

Once Ellen's student, Liz returns as the son's girlfriend and brings her ideology with her.

Cast

Kyle Chandler as Paul Taylor
Diane Lane as Ellen Taylor
Zoey Deutch as Cynthia Taylor
Daryl McCormack as Rob Thompson
Phoebe Dynevor as Elizabeth Nettles
Dylan O'Brien as Josh Taylor
Mckenna Grace as Birdie Taylor
Madeline Brewer as Anna Taylor
Selda Kaya as Gerda
Sky Yang as Moses Ho
Flavia Watson as Gemma
Albie Walsh as Hunter
Arlo Walsh as Holden
Maya O'Shea as Tia
Rebecca O'Mara as Enumerator One

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