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Funny Games

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When Ann, husband George and son Georgie arrive at their holiday home they are visited by a pair of polite and seemingly pleasant young men. Armed with deceptively sweet smiles and some golf clubs, they proceed to terrorize and torture the tight-knit clan, giving them until the next day to survive.
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Though made with great skill, Funny Games is nevertheless a sadistic exercise in chastising the audience.

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Jake Wilson The Age (Australia) Registers more strongly than the original as a film about privileged white people... Rated: 3.5/5 Sep 12, 2008 Full Review Paul Byrnes Sydney Morning Herald It's a tawdry kind of horror movie plot, given new meaning by Haneke's considerable intellect. Rated: 3.5/4 Sep 5, 2008 Full Review David Stratton At the Movies (Australia) I'm not at all sure that, in manipulating the audience to make his points, Haneke isn't as guilty of exploitation as the filmmakers and the films he's attacking here. Rated: 3/5 Sep 5, 2008 Full Review Kathy Fennessy Seattle Film Blog Funny Games isn't meant to echo reality. Most of the incidents that transpire are "plausible," to borrow Paul's word, even if he and Peter aren't intended to resemble actual human beings, and Haneke doesn't burden the characters with a back story. Rated: 2.5/4 Jul 31, 2024 Full Review Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review Don’t think of Haneke’s picture as a thriller, bound by typical thriller tropes, complete with an exciting thriller climax and gratifying conclusion. Think of it as an experiment to show you how Hollywood cinema has manipulated your expectations Rated: 3.5/4 Jun 5, 2024 Full Review Stephanie Archer Film Inquiry Michael Haneke‘s Funny Games finds little humor in the horror it unleashes on the unsuspecting Farber Family. A game to shock and horrify, this is not a film with a happy ending, but rather a terrifying understanding of the continuing cycle of violence. Feb 4, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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thiago s Filme fraco, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas são fracas, a história é fraca, o elenco é fraco, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, os personagens são fracos, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e relevantes, para fazer o filme ser bom Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 07/23/25 Full Review Audience Member This film is not a horror or thriller, it’s more so a commentary on films and how desensitized audiences have become to violence, if you want to watch a satisfying horror movie or thriller this is not that film. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/05/25 Full Review Jean B Boring, useless, nothing good in there. Don’t waste time and watch something else. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 07/04/25 Full Review Thom B To this very day, May 2025, I am still haunted by the ending. I found it to be a very sick movie. Giving 2 stars is being gratuitous. On a side note, it's perplexing how we still want to revisit something to take another peek. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 05/25/25 Full Review Alison K I think this movie is amazing the actors and actress is great and I don’t care about the original if I don’t know the actors I’m not going to have attachment with them I don’t care it doesn’t matter to me I have to know you to see if I want you to live or not or I care about you at all people can disagree with me but it’s my personal opinion you don’t have to agree but I said what I said I really enjoy this movie and the performance I’m glad that villains one it was hard to watch the family suffer but it was good for the villains to finally win most movies now days 2025 they loses lot I really love the villains it was kind of interesting to see their interpretation and to see why they’re motivated to do something like this I have seen this movie so many times it was really good I love at the end the creepy smile wink at the end Micheal Pitt is amazing villain Rated 5 out of 5 stars 04/20/25 Full Review Julian S Whichever version you watch, FUNNY GAMES is a taut, unflinching study in discomfort with a lingering aftertaste. The U.S. cast edges slightly ahead, but both are excellent. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/16/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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Michael Haneke

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Naomi Watts

Anna Farber

Tim Roth

George Farber

Michael Pitt

Paul

Brady Corbet

Peter

Devon Gearhart

Georgie Farber

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Synopsis When Ann, husband George and son Georgie arrive at their holiday home they are visited by a pair of polite and seemingly pleasant young men. Armed with deceptively sweet smiles and some golf clubs, they proceed to terrorize and torture the tight-knit clan, giving them until the next day to survive.
Director
Michael Haneke
Producer
Chris Coen, Hamish McAlpine
Screenwriter
Michael Haneke
Distributor
Warner Independent
Production Co
Celluloid Dreams, Lucky Red, X-Filme Creative Pool, Tartan Productions, Halcyon Pictures
Rating
R (Terror|Some Language|Violence)
Genre
Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 14, 2008, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 28, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$1.3M
Runtime
1h 52m
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