The Invite (2026 film) | Daily Mail Online

Olivia Wilde’s hilarious and poignant sex comedy, now available to rent at home

Year: 2026

Certificate: 15

Watch now on Sky

Olivia Wilde’s wordy relationship comedy The Invite is reminiscent of peak Woody Allen, in the sense that it can shift from hilarious to sad and thought-provoking in the space of a scene. Many long-term couples will find it at least partly relatable.

Smartly written by Will McCormack and Rashida Jones, it’s impeccably acted by a cast of just four: Wilde, Seth Rogen, Edward Norton and Penelope Cruz. Wilde plays nervy, unhappy Angela, whose marriage to Joe (Rogen), a disillusioned music teacher, has become one long argument. 

The story unfolds more or less in real time over the course of one evening, as Joe gets back to their apartment to find that, with their daughter away on a sleepover, Angela has invited their upstairs neighbours, Pina (Cruz) and Hawk (Norton), for dinner. He is aghast. He doesn’t want their company; he just wants them to stop having disruptively noisy sex in the middle of the night.

We won’t spoil what happens after they turn up, but it’s both funnier and more poignant than you’d expect, and much of it is acted in unsparing close-up as the night takes one tense turn after another. 

Available to buy and rent at home on Sky, Amazon, Apple etc. (102 minutes)