Release, runtime and language

1972 · 106 mins · English

Directed by

James Ivory

Starring

Sam Waterston, Neil Fitzgerald, Susan Blakely, Thayer David, Martin Kove, Paulita Sedgwick

A tribe of primitive “mudpeople” discovers a rolling croquet ball in their forest and follows it to a sprawling, abandoned Long Island estate. Inside, they adopt the manners, clothing and roles of a weekend party’s upper‑class guests, creating an allegory of bourgeois behavior. Eventually they regress, culminating in a chaotic croquet duel before they retreat back into the woods.