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Movie, 1968

The Birthday Party

IMDb 6.5, 123 min, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, United Kingdom

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.

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DirectorWilliam Friedkin
WritersHarold Pinter
Runtime123 min
ReleasedMon, Dec 9, 1968
CountryUnited Kingdom

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