The Birthday Party (1968)

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.

Released

1968-12-09

Genres

Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Runtime

123 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

William Friedkin, Harold Pinter

TMDB rating

6.5/10 from 22 votes