“The share the house. They share the food. They share Teddy's wife. Such a nice happy family.”
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.
Peter Hall
Ely A. Landau
Harold Pinter
David Watkin
Paul Rogers
Max
Ian Holm
Lenny
Cyril Cusack
Sam
Terence Rigby
Joey
Michael Jayston
Teddy
Vivien Merchant
Ruth
CinemaSerf
I’ve never really seen Paul Rogers own a part anything like as strongly as he portrays the curmudgeonly old “Max” in this rather bleakest of family get-togethers. He shares their London home with his brother “Sam” (Cyril Cusack) and his two sons. “Lenny” (Ian Holm) looks like he belongs in the Gesta...
Cinévision Ltée
The American Film Theatre