See How They Run (2022)
Country: GB/US
Technical: col 98m
Director: Tom George
Cast: Sam Rockwell, Saoirse Ronan, Ruth Wilson, David Oyelowo, Harris Dickinson (as Richard Attenborough)
Synopsis:
At the 1953 celebratory 100th performance of The Mousetrap, the despised director of a putative film version is murdered in the prop store. A dipsomaniac police inspector and an over-zealous female sergeant arrive (separately) to investigate.
Review:
An Agatha Christie spoof with nothing whatever to do with Philip King's classic farce of the same name (indeed one wonders at the title), this gives plenty of space to the complementary comedic talents of its two stars, even if the rest of the cast contribute merely competent performances of their indifferent material. The production is gleamingly first-rate, with loving period detail scrupulously applied, but the results are neither funny nor thrilling enough to sustain more than fleeting pleasure.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col 98m
Director: Tom George
Cast: Sam Rockwell, Saoirse Ronan, Ruth Wilson, David Oyelowo, Harris Dickinson (as Richard Attenborough)
Synopsis:
At the 1953 celebratory 100th performance of The Mousetrap, the despised director of a putative film version is murdered in the prop store. A dipsomaniac police inspector and an over-zealous female sergeant arrive (separately) to investigate.
Review:
An Agatha Christie spoof with nothing whatever to do with Philip King's classic farce of the same name (indeed one wonders at the title), this gives plenty of space to the complementary comedic talents of its two stars, even if the rest of the cast contribute merely competent performances of their indifferent material. The production is gleamingly first-rate, with loving period detail scrupulously applied, but the results are neither funny nor thrilling enough to sustain more than fleeting pleasure.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col 98m
Director: Tom George
Cast: Sam Rockwell, Saoirse Ronan, Ruth Wilson, David Oyelowo, Harris Dickinson (as Richard Attenborough)
Synopsis:
At the 1953 celebratory 100th performance of The Mousetrap, the despised director of a putative film version is murdered in the prop store. A dipsomaniac police inspector and an over-zealous female sergeant arrive (separately) to investigate.
Review:
An Agatha Christie spoof with nothing whatever to do with Philip King's classic farce of the same name (indeed one wonders at the title), this gives plenty of space to the complementary comedic talents of its two stars, even if the rest of the cast contribute merely competent performances of their indifferent material. The production is gleamingly first-rate, with loving period detail scrupulously applied, but the results are neither funny nor thrilling enough to sustain more than fleeting pleasure.