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12 May 1987 (USA)
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Brilliant!
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(Credited cast) | John Travolta | ... | Ben (segment "The Dumb Waiter") |
 | Tom Conti | ... | Gus (segment "The Dumb Waiter") |
 | Linda Hunt | ... | Rose (segment "The Room") |
| Annie Lennox | ... | Mrs. Sands (segment "The Room") |
 | Julian Sands | ... | Mr. Sands (segment "The Room") |
| David Hemblen | ... | Mr. Hudd (segment "The Room") |
| Abbott Anderson | ... | (segment "The Room") |
 | Donald Pleasence | ... | Mr. Kidd (segment "The Room") |
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USA:108 min
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I am the first one to SPIT upon....really, I cannot stand pretentious crud -- spit upon art that pretends to be art...
Paintings of green with a yellow spot and selling for $250,000 (seriously), or boring movies and plays that border on insanity...BUT...Pinter's MASterpiece, The Dumb Waiter is indeed an 'absurdist' piece, but one that has a beginning, a middle and an end, and truly carries the viewer (or reader) through a psychological dialogue that ranks with Terry Gilliam's 'Brazil,' and Mamet's The Spanish Prisoner,' as films that take the absurdist and surreal genre and actually make films truly art-worthy.
I love the Dumb Waiter -- and ironically, fell in love with it during a college drama class -- I wrote at length about it because I had been one to rant about stupid wannabe pretentious theatre, art, music, etc. and realized that Pinter is truly an artist. Truly. Other pretenders do minimalistic work because they can't do more, but this is great -- and the best acting Travolta has done besides Pulp Fiction... ...oh, and Battlefield Earth...(just kidding)