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The Birthday Party* (1968)
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Director:	William Friedkin
Starring:	Robert Shaw, Patrick Magee
Genres:	Drama, Comedy, Indie-Arthouse Cinema, Mystery-Suspense, Thriller
Origin:	USA
Certificate:	M
Languages:	English
Running Time:	126 min

synopsis

Based on Harold Pinter's enigmatic play about a boarder (Robert Shaw) in a British seaside dwelling who is visited by two strangers (Patrick Magee, Sydney Tafler). 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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