The Homecoming
Summary:
In The Homecoming, adapted from the play by Harold Pinter, Michael Jayston brings his wife Vivien Merchant home to visit his long-estranged family. Jayston's father Paul Rogers is a washout, his uncle Cyril Cusack is on the edge of senility, and his brothers Ian Holm and Terence Rigby are, respectively, a slimy pimp and a brutish boxer. The sparser the dialogue, t... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Cyril Cusack - (Sam)
Ian Holm - (Lenny)
Michael Jayston - (Teddy)
Vivien Merchant - (Ruth)
Terence Rigby - (Joey)
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Review:
Probably the finest of the American Film Theatre productions of the '70s, The Homecoming is a bleakly comic, brutal, and undeniably powerful adaptation of the Harold Pinter stage classic. Pinter, of course, is essentially known for two things -- his famous pauses and his ambiguity of meaning. Both are present in Homecoming, but it's ... Continue >>
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