Perhaps one of the most uncomfortable movie you’ll experience all year, The Overnight is an alluring, entertaining and awkwardly funny comedy that defies convention. Whether you enjoy it or not is completely up to how willing and able you are to accept being uncomfortable for 80 minutes.

Adam Scott and Taylor Schilling star as parents to a young boy who have just moved to Los Angeles; they accept an invitation for a dinner date at another couple’s home, where they proceed to get drunk, get high, and learn way too much about their hosts (played by Jason Schwartzman and Judith Godrèche).

The Overnight is one of the rare movies I went into not knowing a single thing about it: I didn’t know who was in it, what it was about or even what genre it was. The movie is deliciously unpredictable, relying on sexual tension that may or may not be there and a simmering suspicion that things are not quite what they seem--or that they are exactly what they seem, which may be worse.

Superbly acted by the four leads, The Overnight is a lot of fun--well written by director Patrick Brice, the movie features sharp dialogue, rich characters and a funny story that could go any number of ways at any time.

The movie isn’t for everyone. The comedy gets increasingly scandalous as the story progresses, and it finds humor in places some people won’t find funny at all. The climax will definitely turn some people off--I still can’t decide whether it’s a jump-the-shark moment or the necessary conclusion to the story. Either way, it’s probably best you don’t take your grandparents to The Overnight.

Funny, clever and unpredictable, The Overnight has all the makings of a terrific comedy. Its limiting factor--its intentional awkwardness and willingness to make the audience uncomfortable--coupled with the fact that I really have no desire to watch it again, no matter how much I enjoyed it in the moment--keeps it from being amazing. But The Overnight is worth experiencing nonetheless.

Review by Erik Samdahl. Erik is a marketing and technology executive by day, avid movie lover by night. He is a member of the Seattle Film Critics Society.