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Clue

1985 · 94 min

A fizzy, farcical romp where the jokes fly faster than the bodies drop, and the puzzle-box plot keeps you grinning.

Tagline: It's not just a game anymore.
Overview: 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.

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Tone: satiricalstrength 3 of 3
absurdstrength 3 of 3
campystrength 2 of 3
cynicalstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: deception
betrayal
crime
class
guilt
Places: single country house
Era: period
Audience: teen
Form: ensemble
twist ending
single location
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	3
Horror	1
Humour	8
Realism	4
Romance	1
Tension	4
Darkness	3
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	2

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Genres: comedy, crime, mystery
Directed by: Jonathan Lynn
Written by: Jonathan Lynn
Starring: Tim Curry, Eileen Brennan, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Martin Mull, Lesley Ann Warren, Colleen Camp
Music: John Morris
Cinematography: Victor J. Kemper
Runtime: 94 min
Country: United States of America
Languages: French, English

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