Peter's Friends

Peter's Friends (1992) is a British comedy-drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Kenneth Branagh. The cast reads like a roll call of British talent: Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson, Hugh Laurie, Imelda Staunton and Branagh himself.

Peter inherits a vast country estate from his father and invites six Cambridge classmates to spend New Year's Eve there — the first time they have all been in the same room since graduation a decade earlier. Andrew has moved to Los Angeles and brought back an American TV star wife. Roger and Mary are married and quietly miserable. Maggie is still hoping. The champagne flows, old jokes resurface, and then the real conversations begin — the ones about what actually happened to everyone's life.

Branagh shot the whole film in a weekend-party format that lets the ensemble do the work. Every exchange has weight. Peter's secret, held back until the final hours of the night, lands differently than anyone expects. Stream Peter's Friends (1992) on iFILM.