My Dinner with Andre (1981)

Playing fictionalised versions of themselves, Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory make for thoroughly diverting companions as we eavesdrop on what is made out to be a single teo-hour conversation at an upscale New York restaurant. At first, Gregory is passionate to the point of seemingly being chemically enhanced, leaving Shawn to simply listen and request elaboration. As the evening passes and the wine flows, however, the dialogue opens up and questions are raised about life and the meaning of human existence, and what seems at first to be pure whimsy finally reveals itself to be far meatier fare.