Games is about a married couple played by James Caan and Katharine Ross. They collect art and have a lavish New York apartment filled with games like pinball and duck shooting. They invite their rich, weirdo friends over to have wild parties. Everything changes when a woman named Lisa comes to their door, selling make-up, and collapses. Ross allows the woman to stay and recuperate. Caan doesn't think it is such a good idea but, before long, the three are playing an escalating series of pranks on each other. Which is all well and good until one of their games turns deadly. Can Ross live with the guilt of being accessory to murder? And what if the dead person isn't ready to be dead quite yet?
This movie reminded me of a Columbo episode (the harpsichord soundtrack and vivid 60s-ness of the whole thing didn't hurt). As a savvy modern viewer, you are waiting for one more twist to the story that doesn't come. Instead, you get a moderate haunted house story with what was, I'm sure, a shocking conclusion at the time. This could have been a really great movie but the lack of ambition dooms it a bit. I don't want to say anymore in case you choose to see the movie but I was disappointed.
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