The Birthday Party
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1968-12-09
Runtime: 123 mins
Director: William Friedkin
Spoken language: English
Genres: Drama, Comedy, Thriller
Original title: The Birthday Party
Production Companies: Palomar Pictures International
Production Countries: United Kingdom
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