Fredo is naive and stupid. With a semi-autobiographical screenplay by Pinter, the film was produced by Sam Spiegel and directed by David Jones.It was critically well received, praised notably by New York Times film critic Vincent Canby and by Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert. Likes: movies, games, football, writing, music and people. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Director: Guy Ritchie | Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, … Ah, the ultimate betrayal. It is a tragedy where the ending, paradoxically, makes the beginning inevitable. Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Patricia Hodge, Avril Elgar, Ray Marioni, A Masterpiece: No play will ever surpass this look at infidelity, friendship, and trust, Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2007. The apostle seals his betrayal with a kiss, an act that would be copied by countless storytellers over the years as a sign of disloyalty or duplicity. They may turn out to have telekinetic powers, which they then use to lock you indoors and set fire to the school you’re trapped in, killing you all very slowly. How does the husband hide from himself the obvious patterns of deception going on around him over the years? Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2008. Terrified of becoming a real person some day. Though it's not as if that revelation made a blind bit of difference to the crew of the Nostromo. Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)– Peter Pettigrew x Sirius Black. Betrayal is a 1983 British drama film adaptation of Harold Pinter's 1978 play of the same name. Move and TV news, trailers, reviews and more! She is tried and convicted for Nick’s murder, but a chance phone conversation leads her to believe that Nick isn’t actually dead. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Patricia Hodge is Emma, wife of Ben Kingsley (Robert), and she's having an affair with Jeremy Irons (Jerry). She spends the two violent films seeking revenge on everyone who betrayed her, ultimately finding the man who instigated it all, exacting justice and taking her child back. Sidney Prescott has really, really bad luck. You'll Never Get 100% On This Guardians Of The Galaxy Quiz! – Paul Bilyen Jul 3 '14 at 22:44. add a comment | 5. Yes, ‘The Narrator’ as he is so-called, spends the entire film believing that he has met an exciting, and psychotic, new friend, unaware that it’s actually HIM who is committing these acts. 9. That’s what she’s become used to by now. Unable to add item to List. Great read if you are a fan of the movies and film in general. In Scream 2, she’s betrayed again by her new boyfriend’s best friend and (kind of) by her dead ex-boyfriend’s mother (Billy, from the first film). Please log in again. Jill is not only jealous of the attention Sidney gets, but also has a weird wish to become famous for being the only survivor of a Ghostface attack. 5. Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2019. 8. Australia: Win Bonkers Horror-Comedy ‘Satanic Panic’ on DVD! Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2008. 3. Libby wakes up in the middle of the night feeling groggy and covered in blood, with her husband having disappeared. Jeremy Irons sizzles from the inside out in one of the best roles of his career, while Ben Kingsley navigates Pinter's choppy dialogue and trademark pauses with just the right blend of awkwardness and intensity. There is no hint of soap opera in the emotional passion play. This movie version of Harold Pinter's riveting play is as great as they come. It’s a pretty huge betrayal, but the silver lining is present in the narration, which is spoken by Briony herself, who is now much older and is trying to make amends for the mistake she made. A betrayal if I ever saw one. If you know Harry Potter, you know that Pettigrew is a spineless little – for lack of a better word – rat, who betrayed Harry’s parents to Lord Voldemort, and then got Harry’s parent’s best friend, Sirius, sent to Azkaban (wizard prison) for their murders. Three people, intertwined by friendship, marriage, and work, live with the realities and consequences of the extra-marital affair between two of them. 10. To watch Ben Kingsley go mad is amazing. And last, but not least, Scream 4 has Jill, Sidney’s cousin, betraying her. Director David Jones adapted Harold Pinter's play of the same name -- with the help of Pinter himself -- to better fit this chronologically reversed drama of love and betrayal to the medium of film. Betrayals can make or break a film. The story begins with Kingley's character discovering that he has, over a period of years, been deceived and, in a rage, confronting his wife and friend and ends with the inception of the affair in on a vacation in Venice. Naturally, Libby sets out to kill her scum husband and take their cute son back, with a detective (Tommy Lee Jones) on her tail. Carrie (1976) – The ‘Cool’ Kids x Carrie. Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2005. Poor Carrie was betrayed, but she ultimately got her revenge. I can still remember being a child, crying my eyes out as Simba tries to wake up his father after Mufasa has been thrown by HIS OWN BROTHER, Scar, into a herd of running wildebeest.