 This candid, often-funny drama explores the bittersweet side of friendship through the eyes of two best-friend married couples. Invited to dinner at the suburban home of husband-and-wife food critics Gabe and Karen (Dennis Quaid and Andie MacDowell), Beth (Toni Collette) reveals she s breaking up with her husband Tom (Greg Kinnear) after 12 years of marriage and two children. This unexpected revelation forces Gabe and Karen to reevaluate their seemingly perfect relationship, as well as their friendship with two people who seem to be refusing the life they all once worked so hard to preserve. The drama is set in present-day Connecticut and New York City, with flashbacks to Martha s Vineyard twelve-and-a-half years earlier.