The Birthday Party

Dec 9, 1968

2h 3m

★ 6.4

Overview

Based on Harold Pinter's enigmatic play about a boarder 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.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Thriller

Production Companies

Palomar Pictures International

The Birthday Party Trailers

Cast

Stanley Webber

Robert Shaw

Shamus McCann

Patrick Magee

Meg Bowles

Dandy Nichols

Nat Goldberg

Sydney Tafler

Pete Bowles

Moultrie Kelsall

Lulu

Helen Fraser

Meera is beautiful, pregnant and in search of some spice in her life. Mohit is young, idle, and lives next door with Devki, his abusive mother. Meera has a boring and absent husband. But wait to see what the guy is hiding. Her aunty Dunga is old and hopes to become immortal, her other half has a secret in his shop nobody knows about, except his young grandchild who is smarter than it seems. They all live in a dilapidated building called Amar Colony.

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