The Homecoming

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S R @ScottR May 3 An unnerving play to say the least with its harsh look at British working class family coming into a reunion with their son and his new wife. The writing is excellent although the content is uncomfortable / vulgar. It is a rarity to have this type of cultural look at the English. Although I didn't want to, I had to keep watching. NYT 1000 movies list and SLC DVD. See more Alec B 01/09/2024 Its a little shocking that Pinter's play works as a movie at all, but it is perfectly cast which is the most crucial part of staging his work. See more 11/09/2020 Its a little shocking that Pinter's play works as a movie at all, but it is perfectly cast which is the most crucial part of staging his work. See more 04/25/2017 Fucking kill me there's still an hour left. See more 03/09/2013 Brilliant....but you wont like it. See more 09/17/2012 Very well-regarded Pinter play gets turned into highly regarded film, but I just don't get it. It's not that all the characters are fairly horrible people, and it's not that the situations pass the point of realism. It's that the entire efficient nature of the plotting and the dialogue, the way that the exposition occurs, is much too programmatic. At one point, one of the characters says of his family, "You're just objects. You just...move about." That's how I felt about how Pinter wrote everyone in the play: solely as avatars for his point of view. See more Read all reviews

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