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The share the house. They share the food. They share Teddy's wife. Such a nice happy family.Plot Keywords:
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Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. moreNewsDesk:
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Harold Pinter Wins Nobel Prize (From Studio Briefing. 14 October 2005)
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does it work as a film? moreCast
(Credited cast) | Cyril Cusack | ... | Sam, brother of Max |
 | Ian Holm | ... | Lenny |
| Michael Jayston | ... | Teddy |
| Vivien Merchant | ... | Ruth |
| Terence Rigby | ... | Joey |
| Paul Rogers | ... | Max, father of Lenny, Teddy, and Joey |
 | Jonathan Sachar | ... | Brian |
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Max, father of Lenny, Teddy, and Joey: Look what I'm lumbered with. One cast-iron bunch of crap after another. One flow of stinking pus after another. moreFAQ
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As the above comments reveal, this is a wonderful, deeply disturbing, but also riotously comic play. I did it for English 'A' level which was pure madness - difficult enough getting my head round it at my now considerably more advanced age. Having seen Ian Holm give a riveting performance in London as Max, I really leapt at the chance to see this as the local arts cinema and it was gripping. Ian Holm was fantastic, with more than a touch of the Del Boy about him (re-watch the play and see its Only Fools and Horses connections- the grotty flat, the brother-uncle-father dynamic, the dead worshipped prostitute mother etc) and Teddy was played with a wonderful swagger. The scene where all four of them stand in a corridor lighting their cigars was comic and tragic and menacing in the best way. But I really wonder how cinematic any of this was? You have the feeling of watching theatrical performance preserved in aspic rather than a film. The scene outside the flat was contrived and unnecessary and other than that pretty much all the action took place in one room. I feel we lost rather than gained from the live experience of watching a play. But, not having been alive when this film was made, it does mean I get to get a glimpse of a towering production of an amazing play. And that can't be a bad thing.