All My Friends Hate Me

6/11/2022

So "Pete" (co-writer Tom Stourton) sets off to spend his birthday weekend with some university friends he hasn't seen for a few years, at the rather gorgeous stately pile of one of their parents. Things don't bode well as he arrives to find nobody else there. They'd gone to the pub and he didn't know! That sets the tone for the rest of this rather thinly-spread comedy drama as he - a somewhat earnest charity worker in Africa - gradually begins to feel alienated by them, and their new found friend "Harry" (Dustin Demri-Burns) whom he suspects is deliberately trying to poison them against him. The original premiss is actually quite good, but the execution struggles as poor old "Pete" finds himself becoming more and more paranoid - even when his girlfriend "Sonia" (Charly Clive) arrives and s