The read
Audiences rate it 23 points higher than critics do. Most of the 169 1970s science fiction movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
During a future ice age, dying humanity occupies its remaining time by playing a board game called Quintet. For one small group, this obsession is not enough. They play the game with living pieces, and only the winner survives.
Ratings
IMDb5/10
Rotten Tomatoes27%
Audiences rate it 23 points higher than critics do.
83 audience votes
Key crew
- Robert AltmanDirector
- Patricia ResnickScreenplay
- Frank BarhydtScreenplay
- Robert AltmanScreenplay
- Tom PiersonOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Paul NewmanEssex
- Vittorio GassmanSaint Christopher
- Fernando ReyGrigor
- Bibi AnderssonAmbrosia
- Brigitte FosseyVivia, Essex's Wife
- Nina van PallandtDeuca
- Craig Richard NelsonRedstone
- David LangtonGoldstar
- Thomas HillFrancha
- Monique MercureRedstone's Mate
- Maruska StankovaJaspera
- Anne GeretyAeon
