The Homecoming (1973)

The Criterion Channel is featuring the work of Nobel laureate Harold Pinter. This was a play filmed with the original cast as it appeared on stage about a degenerate family in North London.

A retired father, his brother who works as a chauffeur and his two sons, one a pimp, the other trying to be a boxer, live together in a house the two older men inherited from their mother. A third son, a philosophy professor working at a university in California, returns unannounced with his new wife who the others meet for the first time. 

Turns out the apple doesn't fall far from the tree even if it does have a PhD. The wife is a surprisingly good sport.

Paul Rogers, Ian Holm, Cyril Cusack, Terence Rigby, Michael Jayston and Vivian Merchant. That's the full cast.

It was great. It was brilliant. And it might make a good double feature with Ride the High Country. You'll see why.