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Guest of Honour

Play trailer Poster for Guest of Honour 2020,  1h 45m,  Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 41% 64 Reviews Tomatometer 36% Fewer than 50 Ratings Popcornmeter
41% Tomatometer 64 Reviews 36% Popcornmeter Fewer than 50 Ratings
A father confronts his 20-year-old daughter, who is in prison for a sexual assault. Their relationship will become more complicated when the past resurfaces.
Guest of Honour

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Critics Consensus

David Thewlis' performance aside, Guest of Honour serves as a frustratingly limited return to form for writer-director Atom Egoyan.

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Robbie Collin Daily Telegraph (UK) Nov 26, 2020
3/5
Perhaps it's fitting that a film about a restaurant inspector should elicit so many sniffs of suspicion. But there's a playful spice and pungency here too. Go to Full Review
Peter Rainer FilmWeek (LAist) Jul 22, 2020
It's kind of a mess narratively and psychologically. Go to Full Review
Claudia Puig FilmWeek (LAist) Jul 22, 2020
It feels scattershot and overwrought, unfortunately. Go to Full Review
Ashleigh Gozy Loud and Clear Reviews Oct 25, 2025
2.5/5
Everyone involved is very capable, and when it shows it certainly shows, but when it lacks it definitely shows as well. Go to Full Review
Dustin Chang ScreenAnarchy Oct 23, 2020
Guest of Honour might not be the best thing Egoyan has made. But with David Thewlis's affecting and measured performance, it comes close to his heyday of filmmaking in the 90s. Go to Full Review
Dennis Harvey 48 Hills Oct 12, 2020
Taking place in various time periods, its tricky structure more garbled than intriguing, this is another recent Egoyan joint that's basically a trashy potboiler treated with a seriousness that only makes it all both leaden and silly. Go to Full Review
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Atom Egoyan

Director

David Thewlis

Jim

Laysla De Oliveira

Veronica

Luke Wilson

Father Greg

Rossif Sutherland

Mike

Alexandre Bourgeois

Clive

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Guest of Honour

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Movie Info

Synopsis A father confronts his 20-year-old daughter, who is in prison for a sexual assault. Their relationship will become more complicated when the past resurfaces.
Director
Atom Egoyan
Producer
Atom Egoyan, Simone Urdl, Jennifer Weiss
Screenwriter
Atom Egoyan
Distributor
Kino Lorber
Production Co
Ego Film Arts, The Film Farm
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jul 10, 2020, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jul 10, 2020
Runtime
1h 45m
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