CLUE (1985) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Jonathan Lynn
Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Lesley Anne Warren,
Christopher Lloyd, Eileen Brennan, Martin Mull,
Michael McKean, Colleen Camp, Lee Ving,
Bill Henderson, Jane Wiedlin, Kellye Nakahara
Six characters in an old dark house in search of a murderer, who could be one of them. The year is 1954 - a television in the background is tuned to the Army-McCarthy hearings - and everybody in the room works in some capacity for the government. They're also all being blackmailed. The clues keep piling up, along with the bodies, and the butler seems to know more than anybody. Did he do it? A frantically paced, farcical whodunit, and an energized workout for its keyed-up cast. The odds of making sense of all the evidence are low, but for a movie based on a board game, this is pretty good. Just pile the corpses on the couch in the study.
