My Dinner with Andre is a 1981 American comedy-drama film directed by Louis Malle, and written by and starring André Gregory and Wallace Shawn as fictionalized versions of themselves sharing a conversation at Café des Artistes in Manhattan.

At Café des Artistes in Manhattan, Andre tells Wally about some of the adventures he has had since they last saw each other, which included working with his mentor Jerzy Grotowski and a group of Polish actors in a forest in Poland; traveling to the Sahara while trying to create a play based on The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry; and visiting the ecological commune Findhorn in Scotland.

The last in this string of events was when Andre and a small group of friends arranged Halloween-themed experiences for each other at an estate in Montauk, including the participants being briefly buried alive.

Andre asserts that focusing too much on comfort can be dangerous, and says that what passes for normal life in New York City is more akin to living in a dream than reality.

Since Andre paid for dinner, Wally treats himself to a taxi ride, and he notices feeling a deep connection to all of the familiar places he passes on the way home.

[3] My Dinner with Andre was filmed over two weeks in December 1980 in Richmond, Virginia, in the then-vacant Jefferson Hotel,[6] which has since been restored and reopened as a luxury venue.

Wallace Shawn's longtime partner in real life is the short story writer Deborah Eisenberg, who had not yet published anything at the time of the film.

Eisenberg makes an appearance early in the film as a dark-haired diner Wally sees as he scans the restaurant while standing at the bar waiting for Andre.