Basements is the title for the omnibus film that brings together two plays by Harold Pinter – The Dumb Waiter and The Room – each, once again, set in a single location.
Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families. Driven by their passion, the young lovers defy their destiny and elope, only to suffer the ultimate tragedy.
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife.
Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and co-designer).
Hero and Beatrice, cousins and best friends, have very different approaches to love. Beatrice, burned once, is fiercely avoiding her arrogant ex-boyfriend Benedick and has sworn off men in general.
A woman's one-night stand turns out to be her friend's husband, and a local political candidate.
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Basements (1987) [The Dumb Waiter]
This playhouse style drama is set in the dark damp basement kitchen of a deserted house. The two central characters establish their complete contrast in ...
The Room
Robert Altman directs this adaptation of Harold Pinter's play The Room. Starring Linda Hunt Donald Pleasance Annie Lennox Julian Sands David Hemblem ...
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