Reunion 2024

The story unfolds on the night of, and aftermath of, the twenty-year reunion of the Ridgeview High School class of 2001. The party is being hosted at the home of successful hedge fund manager Mathew Danbury (Chace Crawford), and the attendees include local police officer Evan West (Billy Magnussen), his best friend Ray Hammon (Lil Rel Howery), journalist Jasmine Park (Jamie Chung), weirdo Vivian Chase (Jillian Bell), aspiring Congresswoman Amanda Tanner (Nina Dobrev), former popular girl Meagan Cooper (Cassandra Blair), and their former teacher, Mr. Theodore Buckley (Michael Hitchcock).

Ray tells Evan that Jasmine is into her and is worried that Evan has not been dating for months. Evan is livid that Matthew is showing off his wealth by hosting the party at his house. Ray and Meagan dated for a few weeks back in High School. Ray works as bartender at a local fast-food restaurant.

The cell reception at Mathew’s place is bad and he asks the guests to connect to WiFi in case they need to make a call.

During the reunion, Evan and Jasmine start to form a romantic connection, while Ray keeps making advances on an non receptive Meagan until the pair have a loud argument. Mathew claims to be happily married but flirts with many of the women at the party, including Meagan.

Amanda is horrified to find that Ray knew about her cocaine binges and the time when she beat down a fellow student. Amanda was wearing brass knuckles.

Matthew’s wife was not at the mansion and called him on FaceTime and Matthew introduced her on phone to everyone at the party. Jasmine finds Evan using the WordFeud application on his phone.

Vivian interrupts the festivities to make a speech about how Mathew tormented her during high school. Vivian says that nobody in High School believed that she would make it in life. The power goes off in the middle of Vivian’s speech. Mathew takes Evan with him to fix the power issue and shows him the High School mascot costume that he still had.

Later, Mathew becomes the mascot of their high school football team and dances with everyone. The Mascot slaps Evan on his behind.

A severe snowstorm forces most of the attendees to leave the party early, but Evan, Ray, Jasmine, Vivian, Amanda, and Mr. Buckley are all too drunk to drive and elect to stay at Mathew’s house.

In the morning, Jasmine discovers Mathew’s dead body in his bedroom, shot once in the chest. The phone lines are down from the storm, preventing the group from phoning for help, and there’s no evidence that anyone has left the house since the snowstorm ended. The WiFi modem was found in the kitchen sink and even the landlines are not working.

Jasmine and Amanda both discover late-night sexual texts (at 4 AM) from Mathew, from which Evan deduces that Mathew was killed after the snowstorm ended. As the storm ended at 3 AM and Mathew was alive (as deduced from the sex messages) at 4 AM, and there were no footprints in the snow.

This suggested that one of the people in the house is the killer. It quickly becomes apparent that everyone had a motive to kill Mathew dating back to their bad high school experiences. Evan was the one who hated Mathew the most. Evan had a full football scholarship and in one practice session Mathew hit him too hard in the knee, breaking it and resulting in Evan losing his scholarship.

Vivan is an online vigilante and rescues cats.

Evan and Ray investigate the scene of the murder, noting the window that was open during the snowstorm and a bullet hole in the wardrobe door. Ray finds an earring in the wardrobe and chooses to hide it from Evan. Later, the group elects to search one another’s pockets, and Evan discovers the earring, which Ray claims he found on the dance floor. In trios, they search the house for clues, and Amanda is discovered trying to hide a VHS tape from high school of her and Mathew poisoning another student named Tina who was standing against her in election for class President. Tina had a peanut allergy and Amanda smeared peanut butter all over her face, sending Tina into a coma for 3 weeks.

Amanda says that someone contacted her with knowledge of the tape and blackmailed her into shutting off the power at exactly 10:45 PM. The group makes plans to sleep in separate locked rooms for their own protection.

Evan tries to contact central police control through his cop car radio but keeps getting static.

During the night, Jasmine sneaks into Mathew’s office and accesses the records on his computer. While returning to her room, she is chased and knocked unconscious by someone wearing the high school mascot costume. The next morning, Jasmine tells the group that she came to the reunion to gain evidence of Mathew’s hedge fund being engaged in illegal activities. The records contain evidence that Buckley had been defrauded of his life savings (worth $300,000) by Mathew. Vivian notices that one of their cars has an open trunk, and when Evan and Ray investigate, they find the dead body of Meagan. Evan notices that the earring that he found matched the one that Megan had in her ear.

Footprints in the snow match Ray’s boots, and the group remembers Ray and Meagan’s argument during the party, leading them to conclude that Ray killed Meagan and Mathew out of jealousy.

The phone lines are restored, and Mathew’s wife, Lisa (Dianne Doan), learns about her husband’s death. She arrives with local police, and Ray is taken into custody, but Ray snatches a gun and forces everyone into the sitting room while he pieces together the crime. He concludes that Mathew was murdered by Lisa (she left the window open to freeze the body to make it impossible to ascertain the time of death), who blackmailed Amanda into turning off the power to facilitate the crime, opened the bedroom window to confuse the forensic evidence, wore the mascot costume at the party so people wouldn’t realize Mathew was already dead, and killed Meagan because she’d sneaked into Mathew’s bedroom and witnessed the crime.

Furthermore, Ray reveals that Lisa’s accomplice was Evan, her lover, who sent the sexual texts from Mathew’s phone and disposed of Meagan’s body in such a way that Ray would be implicated. Gunshots were not heard as Lisa used a silencer that Evan got for her from the police locker.

The group finds Lisa and Evan’s messages to each other on a mobile gaming app WordFeud, proving their guilt and Ray’s innocence.

As the police take Evan and Lisa into custody, Jasmine offers Ray a job as an investigator for her newspaper. Ray, Jasmine, Vivian, Amanda, and Buckley take an awkward photo together to commemorate the experience.