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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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Controversial Playwright Harold Pinter Dead At Age 78 (From CinemaRetro. 26 December 2008, 9:52 AM, PST)
Dyer's Struggle On Stage Wage
(From WENN. 18 March 2008, 12:17 AM, PDT)
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(Credited cast) | Paul Rogers | ... | Max, father of Lenny, Teddy, and Joey |
 | Ian Holm | ... | Lenny |
| Michael Jayston | ... | Teddy |
| Vivien Merchant | ... | Ruth |
| Cyril Cusack | ... | Sam, brother of Max |
| Terence Rigby | ... | Joey |
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The original Broadway production of "The Homecoming" by Harold Pinter opened at the Music Box Theater in New York on January 5, 1967, ran for 324 performances and won the 1967 Tony Award (New York City) for the Best Play. Ian Holm, Vivien Merchant and 'Terence Rigby' reprise their roles in the filmed production. Ian Holm won the 1967 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play and Vivien Merchant was nominated for the 1967 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. The play's author also wrote the screenplay play for this filmed production. moreQuotes:
Lenny: Take a table, take it. All right, I say, *take* it, *take* a table, but once you've taken it, what you going to do with it? Once you've got hold of it, where you going to take it?Max, father of Lenny, Teddy, and Joey: You'd probably sell it.
Lenny: You wouldn't get much for it.
Joey: Chop it up for firewood.
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I do think the film is cinematic, and the editing, photography, and art direction all put this in the realm of suburb film making.
Yes, it is Pinter at his peak, and most of the cast knew the play well (the new cast members probably only added freshness) from done long runs years before. Having seen most of them, I would say this must surely be the jewel in the AFT crown. Unlike the Pinter directed "Butley" it has grown rather than diminished by the years.
This is one of those film plays (Glengarry Glen Ross may be another) does commit the crime of doing the play so well that it pretty much makes further productions useless. The film of "The Caretaker" done some years earlier is also very strong.