A Delicate Balance (1973)

Directed by

Tony Richardson

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Runtime

2h 12m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 14 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy suburban couple's quiet life is disrupted when their best friends show up unannounced claiming they are afraid to go home. The couple's alcoholic daughter and the wife's sharp-tongued sister are also living in the house. The family struggles with whose needs come first and the fear that can drive people away from their own lives.

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What happens

A Delicate Balance is a 1973 American-Canadian-British drama film directed by Tony Richardson and starring Katharine Hepburn, Paul Scofield, Lee Remick, Kate Reid, Joseph Cotten, and Betsy Blair. The screenplay by Edward Albee is based on his 1966 Pulitzer Prize–winning play of the same name. The film was the second in a series produced by Ely Landau for his American Film Theatre, a subscription-based program of screen adaptations of notable stage plays shown in five hundred theaters in four hundred cities. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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