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

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Cast

Stanley Webber

Robert Shaw

Shamus McCann

Patrick Magee

Meg Bowles

Dandy Nichols

Nat Goldberg

Sydney Tafler

Pete Bowles

Moultrie Kelsall

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Helen Fraser

Can, who has just spawned in a forest dominated by silence, is running away from someone in fear. He doesn't know who or why he is running away from, but along the way he desperately tries to make sense of this bizarre world that he's in. And after a while, while he's searching for a way out, he finds himself stuck among strange places and people.

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