Agatha (1979)

AGATHA  (1979)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Michael Apted
    Vanessa Redgrave, Dustin Hoffman, Timothy Dalton,
    Helen Morse, Celia Gregory, Paul Brooke, Alan Badel
A speculation on what Agatha Christie might've been up to those eleven days in 1926, when she famously disappeared. It has the elegance and polish of one of those BBC productions where the settings are posh, the characters are affluent, and the trains are impossibly clean. Vanessa Redgrave plays Agatha. Dustin Hoffman plays an American journalist who tracks her down. Their star power carries the piece, and their height differential is emphasized rather than mitigated. The ending's a switch. Literally.