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Eileen Brennan | ... | ||
Tim Curry | ... | ||
Madeline Kahn | ... | ||
Christopher Lloyd | ... | ||
Michael McKean | ... | ||
Martin Mull | ... | ||
Lesley Ann Warren | ... | ||
Colleen Camp | ... | ||
Lee Ving | ... | ||
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Bill Henderson | ... | |
Jane Wiedlin | ... | ||
Jeffrey Kramer | ... | ||
Kellye Nakahara | ... | ||
Will Nye | ... |
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Rick Goldman | ... |
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Clue is a movie about 6 guests, a butler, and a maid, who are all involved in the murders of 6 people. The guests all meet at Hill House, where you learn that Professor Plum works in D.C., where everyone else lives. Colonel Mustard is a client of Miss Scarlet, who is the ex-employer of Yvette, the maid, who had an affair with the husband of Mrs. White, etc. When Mr. Boddy, who is blackmailing each guest, gives the guests each a weapon, he tells them they should kill Wadsworth, the butler, to avoid being exposed. With Mrs. Peacock's craziness, and Mr. Green's clumsiness, the whole group finds themselves tangled in a web of murder, lies, and hilarity. Written by Ali Harton
Like Clockwise, this is just a movie I've always found very funny. Superbly casting some superlative film talents into the board game roles of Colonel Mustard et al, this throws the greatest over-actor of them all in as the butler and lets rip. The murders start to pile up, getting sillier and sillier (three cheers for the Singing Telegram Girl!) The pace picks up, so that about half an hour before the end the butler starts to exposit and virtually never stops. Oh, and there are three endings, just for good measure. And the last line is an all-time classic.