1985 · comedy · thriller · crime
Clue
Directed by Jonathan Lynn1h 34m1985
Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, the guests and Boddy's chatty butler must suss out the culprit before the body count rises.
Our read: Clue (1985) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive comedy · thriller · crime entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme comedy / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- cold
- twisty
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“You want rapid-fire mansion murder farce with Tim Curry at maximum camp.”
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