The read
Critics rate it 36 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 36 points higher than audiences do.
21 audience votes
Key crew
- William FriedkinDirector
- Harold PinterScreenplay
Cast
- Robert ShawStanley Webber
- Patrick MageeShamus McCann
- Dandy NicholsMeg Bowles
- Sydney TaflerNat Goldberg
- Moultrie KelsallPete Bowles
- Helen FraserLulu
Stills
Themes
absurdist