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The Perfect Host (2010)

The Perfect Host (2010)

R 93 minutes EN Comedy , Thriller , Crime
Dinner parties are a dying art.
Warwick Wilson is the consummate host. He carefully prepares for a dinner party, the table impeccably set and the duck perfectly timed for 8:30 p.m. John Taylor is a career criminal. He’s just robbed a bank and needs to get off the streets. He finds himself on Warwick’s doorstep posing as a friend of a friend, new to Los Angeles, who’s been mugged and lost his luggage.
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