Film
The Birthday Party
United Kingdom- Age rating
- PG-13
- Director
- William Friedkin
- Year
- 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.
Top cast
Directed by
William Friedkin
Written by
Harold Pinter
Produced by
Milton Subotsky, Max Rosenberg
