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

An anxious teenage boy overcomes his apprehension to talk to a girl. While approaching her, he imagines the worst that could happen. He is laughed at, he goes viral on social media and he turns into a clown all before facing a decision; to learn the truth or to stay in the darkness and dread of his mind. His choice of the truth results in a relievingly pleasant conversation that ends with the girl revealing that she has a boyfriend

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