Also Known As: Harold Pinter's The Homecoming
Company: Cinévision Ltée / The American Film Theatre
Aspect Ratio: 1.78 : 1
Plot: Max is a surly pensioner who alternately venerates and vilifies his dead wife. Sam, his brother, is a supercilious chauffeur. Lenny is a smiling, snake-like pimp. Joey is a thick-witted, would-be boxer. These four men live together in a North London flat, the site of their perpetual sadomasochistic battle of words and sometimes physical violence. And then after nine years, Max's third son, Teddy, a philosophy professor living in California, comes back home for a visit. He brings his wife, Ruth. She is immediately drawn in to the family's ugly psychological games and quickly proves a worthy opponent. Soon, the game involves both of Teddy's brothers taking extreme liberties with Ruth, as the coiled Teddy obstinately refuses to spoil the malicious fun by objecting.
Cast and Character: Paul Rogers as Max / Ian Holm as Lenny / Cyril Cusack as Sam / Terence Rigby as Joey / Michael Jayston as Teddy / Vivien Merchant as Ruth
Trailer: n/A
Creators: n/A
Description: In a dreary North London flat, the site of perpetual psychological warfare, a philosophy professor visits his family after a nine-year absence and introduces the four men - father, uncle and two brothers - to his wife.
Directors: Peter Hall
Genres: Drama
Location: n/A
MPAA: PG
Opening Weekend: n/A
Poster: posters/0070188.jpg
Rating: 6.9
Release Date: 16 April 1977 (France)
Runtime: 111 min
Seasons: n/A
Sound Mix: Mono
Tagline: The share the house. They share the food. They share Teddy's wife. Such a nice happy family.
Title: The Homecoming
Trailer:
Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070188/
Votes: 381
Writers: Harold Pinter / Harold Pinter
Year: 1973
The Homecoming got rated 6.9.
About the movie: Max is a surly pensioner who alternately venerates and vilifies his dead wife. Sam, his brother, is a supercilious chauffeur. Lenny is a smiling, snake-like pimp. Joey is a thick-witted, would-be boxer. These four men live together in a North London flat, the site of their perpetual sadomasochistic battle of words and sometimes physical violence. And then after nine years, Max's third son, Teddy, a philosophy professor living in California, comes back home for a visit. He brings his wife, Ruth. She is immediately drawn in to the family's ugly psychological games and quickly proves a worthy opponent. Soon, the game involves both of Teddy's brothers taking extreme liberties with Ruth, as the coiled Teddy obstinately refuses to spoil the malicious fun by objecting.
Hiroshima, mon amour got rated 7.9.
About the movie: 1959. A French young woman has spent the night with a Japanese man, at Hiroshima where she went for the shooting of a film about peace. He reminds her of the first man she loved. It was during World War II, and he was a German soldier. The main themes of this film are memory and oblivion.
Henry Fool got rated 7.1.
About the movie: Socially inept garbage man Simon is befriended by Henry Fool, a witty roguish, but talent-less novelist. Henry opens a magical world of literature to Simon who turns his hand to writing the 'great American poem'. As Simon begins his controversial ascent to the dizzying heights of Nobel Prize winning poet, Henry sinks to a life of drinking in low-life bars. The two friends fall out and lose touch until Henry's criminal past catches up with him and he needs Simon's help to flee the country.
Harry and Tonto got rated 7.3.
About the movie: Harry is a retired teacher in his 70s living in the Upper West Side of New York City where his late wife and he raised his children--where he's lived all his life. When the building he lives in is torn down to make way for a parking garage, Harry and his beloved cat Tonto begin a journey across the United States, visiting his children, seeing a world he never seemed to have the time to see before, making new friends, and saying goodbye to old friends.
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