"Jack Goes Boating" (2010)
Directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman
A dinner party goes wrong in hilarious, disastrous, drug-fueled ways at the climax of "Jack Goes Boating," after the shy Jack (Philip Seymour Hoffman, who also made his directorial debut with the film) has been spending weeks learning to cook and perfecting a series of dishes for a long-awaited date with Connie (Amy Ryan) at the apartment of the friends who introduced them, Lucy (Daphne Rubin-Vega) and Clyde (John Ortiz). The pair are falling apart just as Connie and Jack are getting together, but are trying to put on a brave face for the possible couple. "Don't get drunk! Don't get weird!" Lucy admonishes her husband, who insists he'll behave. But as things go off the rails, hash is smoked, dishes burn and tensions rise, Clyde disappears and comes back with cocaine, which he and Lucy, seemingly helpless to resist, proceed to hoover off the coffee table. After that, the gloves are off and the volume has been turned way up. The film, adapted from a play, can frequently seem claustrophobic in ways that get in the way of the viewing experience, but never in that party scene, where the addition of coke is like an accelerant on a fire, heightening the sense that the walls are closing in.
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