Thank You for Your Review (2026): Cast, Story and Release Details

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Thank You for Your Review is a 22-minute Latvian comedy short set around a restaurant evening that goes badly in several different ways. A waiter seeks his boss’s approval, a guest competes for attention, and two sisters clash over dinner, creating a chain of misunderstandings with comic consequences.

Thank You for Your Review is a Latvian comedy short directed and written by Līva Polkmane and Marta Šleiere. Running 22 minutes, it brings several uncomfortable social situations together around one restaurant evening.

Its story moves between workplace anxiety, birthday-dinner insecurity and family conflict. As small frustrations and misplaced priorities accumulate, an ordinary meal becomes an elegant tangle of misunderstandings—and leaves behind some unusually confusing reviews.

Thank You for Your Review movie details

Story without spoilers

The film follows three connected strands of social discomfort. A waiter becomes so focused on impressing his boss that he undermines his own evening. Elsewhere, a self-conscious friend tries to claim attention during someone else’s birthday dinner, while two sisters turn a straightforward meal into a personal confrontation.

The result is a comic portrait of people struggling to manage appearances, expectations and competing priorities. Rather than centering on one single conflict, the short builds its premise from several awkward interactions that gradually make the restaurant night unravel.

What to expect

As a comedy with satire and a short-film format, Thank You for Your Review is built around social awkwardness, competing egos and misunderstandings in a restaurant setting. Its 22-minute runtime points to a compact structure, with multiple character situations sharing the same evening and setting.

The premise suggests humor drawn from recognizable behavior: trying too hard to please someone important, seeking attention at the wrong occasion and allowing family tension to take over a simple meal. The film’s title also connects the story’s restaurant chaos with its deliberately puzzling online-review angle.

Cast and creative team

Līva Polkmane and Marta Šleiere both direct and write Thank You for Your Review. The cast includes Ričards Murāns as Alfrēds, Matīss Budovskis as Valters, Rūdolfs Apse as Pauls, Marija Linarte as Katrīna, Igors Šelegovskis as Mārtiņš, Alise Dzene as Amanda and Elza Gauja as Helga. Mārcis Lācis is also credited in the cast.

• Ričards Murāns as Alfrēds
• Matīss Budovskis as Valters
• Rūdolfs Apse as Pauls
• Marija Linarte as Katrīna
• Igors Šelegovskis as Mārtiņš
• Alise Dzene as Amanda
• Elza Gauja as Helga
• Mārcis Lācis

Release and production context

Thank You for Your Review is listed as a 2026 release, with a release date of November 10, 2026. It is a 22-minute production from Latvia, spoken in Latvian and produced by Neonorma. The film is categorized as a comedy and identified with the keywords “satire” and “short film.”

Production companies: Neonorma

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Thank You for Your Review offers a compact comedy premise in which a restaurant becomes the meeting point for professional nerves, social competition and family friction. Its ensemble setup and short runtime make it a focused Latvian comedy about how quickly an ordinary dinner can become difficult to explain.

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