'Anniversary,' Produced by Steve Schwartz '73, Makes Streaming Debut on Hulu

Anniversary, a dystopian political thriller produced by Writing alum Steve Schwartz '73, makes its streaming debut on Hulu this week, March 13. 

Directed by Oscar-nominated Jan Komasa (Corpus Christi, The Hater) and starring Diane Lane, Kyle Chandler, Madeline Brewer, Zoey Deutch, Phoebe Dynevor, Mckenna Grace, Daryl McCormack, Sky Yang, and Dylan O'Brien, the film will reach new audiences following its 2025 release by Lionsgate.

"Big Brother is your sister-in-law" summarized Sheri Linden of The Hollywood Reporter. When Josh (Dylan O'Brien), the only son of Ellen (Diane Lane) and Paul (Kyle Chandler), introduces his new girlfriend (Phoebe Dynevor) one afternoon at their 25th anniversary party, no one suspects that she spells the end for this happy family. The new girlfriend Liz—Ellen’s former student expelled from the university some years before for her radical views—is becoming the darling of "The Change," a fast-rising and controversial political movement.

Komasa, known in Poland for his 2014 film Warsaw 44—a documentary-narrative hybrid about the bloody Polish resistance to the occupying German army in World War II—is no stranger to the horrors of authoritarianism; but in Anniversary, facism doesn't stomp in—as put by Katie Walsh of the Los Angeles Times—it "creeps, pretty and ladylike, on kitten-heeled feet." David Ehrlich of IndieWire lauded Dynevor's "menacing faux-naivete" and Lane received a Satellite Award nomination for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama.

Steve Schwartz is the president of Chockstone Pictures, a production company he co-founded with his wife Paula Mae Schwartz in 2004. He is the producer of All the Old Knives (2022); Serena (2014), starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper; Homeless: The Soundtrack (2018); the star-studded film The Counselor (2013); The Road (2009), and more. He is also the co-executive producer of the Academy Award nominated film The Tree of Life (2011), directed by Terrence Malick. A hiker, kayaker, and climber, Schwartz has served on the boards of the American Alpine Club, the Appalachian Mountain Club, and Bowdoin College.

Watch a trailer for Anniversary below: