The read
Critics rate it 32 points higher than audiences do. It runs a compact 42m.
Synopsis
All the action takes place in a swish London restaurant where two coarse-grained strategy consultants are dining with their respective wives. At an adjacent table a banker and his wife banter over his recently discovered affair. But while Pinter gets a lot of laughs out of these gold-plated philistines, he also suggests they are displaced people. Shorn of any inherited values, they live in an eternal present of sex, food and conspicuous consumption. - Michael Billington, Guardian
Ratings
IMDb6.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 32 points higher than audiences do.
3 audience votes
Key crew
- Harold PinterWriter
- John CrowleyDirector
Cast
- James BolamMatt
- Janie DeeSuki
- Colin FirthRussell
- James FoxRichard
- Michael GambonLambert
- Julia McKenziePrue
- Sophie OkonedoSonia
- Stephen ReaWaiter
- Penelope WiltonJulie