Clue

Director: Jonathan Lynn Jonathan Lynn

Overview

With its tongue firmly in cheek, this take-off on the popular detection board game offers three different endings to its viewing audience (all great). The verbose Mr. Wadsworth (Tim Curry) has invited a select group of six wildly disparate guests to his mansion on a stormy night. They are given pseudonyms -- (Eileen Brennan) is Mrs. Peacock, (Madeline Kahn) is Mrs. White, (Martin Mull) is Colonel Mustard, and (Lesley Ann Warren), (Michael McKean), and (Christopher Lloyd) round out the list as Miss Scarlet, Mr. Green, and Professor Plum. As Colonel Mustard and Wadsworth tangle up the art of conversation, murder punctuates the evening and mystery comes in with the storm.

Product Details

Release Date:	04/25/2017
UPC:	0032429256584
Original Release:	1985
Rating:	PG
Source:	PARAMOUNT
Language:	English
Time:	1:36:00
Sales rank:	2,956

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Eileen Brennan	Mrs. Peacock
Tim Curry	Wadsworth
Madeline Kahn	Mrs. White
Christopher Lloyd	Professor Plum
Michael McKean	Mr. Green
Martin Mull	Col. Mustard
Lesley Ann Warren	Miss Scarlet
Colleen Camp	Yvette,Cop
Lee Ving	Mr. Boddy
Bill Henderson	Cop
Jane Wiedlin	Singing Telegram Girl
Jeffrey Kramer	Motorist
Kellye Nakahara	Cook
Will Nye	Cop
Rick Goldman	Cop
Howard Hesseman	FBI Agent
Janet Hirshenson	Actor
Jane Jenkins	Actor
Danny Costa	Actor
Bill McIntosh	Actor
John-Clay Scott	Actor
John Morris	Composer

Technical Credits

Jonathan Lynn

Jonathan Landis

Jonathan Lynn	Director,Screenwriter
Jonathan Landis	Screenwriter,Executive Producer,Screenwriter,Producer
George Folsey Jr.	Executive Producer,Producer
Peter Guber	Executive Producer,Producer
Debra Hill	Producer
Jon Peters	Executive Producer,Producer
Thomas D. Causey	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

An A-list cast makes this B-quality premise work, but none of it would hold together if writer/director Jonathan Lynn and his co-writer John Landis hadn't taken the board game Clue as a mere jumping-off point for over-the-top satire. Clue the film takes broad aim at every thriller convention -- and every hypocrisy of mid-century America, from boozed-up senator's wives and illicit sexuality to Cold War profiteers and the secret life of J. Edgar Hoover. Tim Curry, Martin Mull, Lesley Ann Warren, and Madeline Kahn are only the most notable names in a cast whose comic credentials could float a project with far more prestige than this one. They all prove game, however, especially Warren as the slatternly Miss Scarlet and Kahn as the frequently apoplectic Mrs. White. With improbable plot twists, slapstick suspense, obnoxious puns, and haunted-house set pieces -- the filmmakers employ anything they can to get the audience laughing. Although such a kitchen-sink approach has been used in films from Airplane to Scary Movie, it's rarely been employed as effectively as this.