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Funny Games

2008 · TMDB 6.5

Directed by Michael Haneke

When Ann, husband George, and son Georgie arrive at their holiday home they are visited by a pair of polite and seemingly pleasant young men. Armed with deceptively sweet smiles and some golf clubs, they proceed to terrorize and torture the tight-knit clan, giving them until the next day to survive.

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Michael Haneke's English-language remake of his own 1997 film, with Naomi Watts and Tim Roth as a couple terrorised by two young men. Haneke deliberately recreates the original shot-for-shot, but the shift in language and actors alters its impact.

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