The Birthday Party

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1968-12-09

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

123 min

Rated:

G

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (355 Reviews)

Director:

William Friedkin

Genres:

Drama Mystery Thriller

Cast:

Robert Shaw Patrick Magee Dandy Nichols Sydney Tafler

Writer:

Harold Pinter (play)

Harold Pinter (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Based on Harold Pinter's enigmatic play about a border in a British seaside dwelling who is visited by two strangers. They torment him verbally, ask him idiotic unanswerable questions, force him to sit down and stand up, and give him a "party." Then, eventually, they take him away, a tongue-tied idiot. The trivial becomes the terrible, and with it a certain wonder, a certain pity.

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