Funny Games

Funny Games follows a wealthy Austrian family arriving at their lakeside holiday home for the summer. Anna, her husband Georg and their young son Georgie have barely settled in when a polite young man named Peter appears at the door, asking to borrow eggs for the neighbours. His manner is courteous, but his arrival is unsettling, and he is soon joined by a second young man, Paul. The two intruders take the family hostage and subject them to a series of cruel games, turning the holiday into a drawn-out ordeal.

Michael Haneke wrote and directed the film, the fifth of the fourteen features he has directed in chronological order, following 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance and preceding The Castle. Susanne Lothar and Ulrich Mühe play Anna and Georg, with Arno Frisch as Paul, Frank Giering as Peter and Stefan Clapczynski as Georgie. Veit Heiduschka produced the film, which was made in Austria and runs 109 minutes.

The film holds a rating of 7.5 from around 96,000 votes on IMDb and 7.3 from roughly 2,200 votes on TMDB. A critics' rating of 7.4 from 40 reviews sits close to those audience scores, indicating a generally favourable reception across both groups.