Clue

1985 94 min ★ 7.2 Comedy, Thriller, Crime, Mystery

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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Cast

Tim Curry

Wadsworth

Eileen Brennan

Mrs. Peacock

Madeline Kahn

Mrs. White

Christopher Lloyd

Professor Plum

Michael McKean

Mr. Green

Martin Mull

Colonel Mustard

Lesley Ann Warren

Miss Scarlet

Colleen Camp

Yvette

Lee Ving

Mr. Boddy

Bill Henderson

The Cop

Details

Director

Jonathan Lynn

Screenplay

Jonathan Lynn

Tagline

"It's not just a game anymore."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$15,000,000

Revenue

$14,647,963

Production

Debra Hill Productions, Paramount Pictures, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, The Guber-Peters Company

Reviews

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Wuchak

March 28, 2018

★ 6/10

**_An amusing take on “And Then There Were None” and “Murder by Death”_** RELEASED IN 1985 and directed by Jonathan Lynn, "Clue" is a comedic murder mystery based on the board game featuring an “all-star” cast (Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd, Eileen Brennan, Lesley Ann Warren, etc.). This is a good movie if you’re in the mood for an amusing mystery that takes place during the Mc...

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John Chard

September 20, 2019

★ 7/10

Cluedo Chaos. Clue is directed by Jonathan Lynn and he co-writes with John Landis and Anthony E. Pratt. It stars Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Christopher Lloyd, Madeline Kahn, Michael McKean, Martin Mull, Lesley Ann Warren, Colleen Camp and Lee Ving. Music is by John Morris and cinematography by Victor J. Kemper. Based on the board game Cluedo, plot finds six guests anonymously invited to a la...

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Peter89Spencer

May 6, 2020

★ 7/10

Those three alternate endings were still very confusing. But it was still humorous nonetheless.

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JPV852

August 9, 2020

★ 7/10

Randomly decided to re-watch this classic crime-comedy and still works today. Plenty of fun throughout and a great ensemble cast. **3.75/5**

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CinemaSerf

June 9, 2023

★ 7/10

Tim Curry and Eileen Brennan are great in this dramatised game of "Cleudo". The former is butler "Wadsworth" who is to welcome a select gathering of guests to his employer's stately pile for a dinner with a difference. Once assembled, we discover that these ostensibly upstanding folks are all really miscreants and that they were all being blackmailed! Unbeknown to them, their nemesis is in their m...