THE HOMECOMING

Vivien Merchant, Cyril Cusack

Paramount; Directed by Peter Hall

Rated PG; 114 minutes; 1975

The multiple award-winning THE HOMECOMING is a superlative example of the essential ambiguity in Harold Pinter's plays. THE HOMECOMING deals with an all-bachelor Cockney family disrupted by the return of the eldest son and his wife from America. Their house in a rundown section of London is a veritable fortress against outside influences, and its oppressive atmosphere is one of constant warfare inside a claustrophobically tight-knit family. Most of the original London cast was re-assembled for this film.