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.
"It's not just a game anymore."
Top Billed 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
Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews
W WuchakVerified TMDB Critic
2018-03-28
**_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 McCarthy era (1954) almost entirely within a vast gothic mansion on a stormy night. It combines movies like “Ten Little Indians” (1965) and “The Beast Must Die” (1974) with the goo...
J John ChardVerified TMDB Critic
2019-09-20
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 large mansion for dinner. All of them have something in common and when their host is killed, they must work with the household staff to identify the murderer because the bodies are starting to pile up....
P Peter89SpencerVerified TMDB Critic
2020-05-06
Those three alternate endings were still very confusing.
But it was still humorous nonetheless....
J JPV852Verified TMDB Critic
2020-08-09
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**...
C CinemaSerfVerified TMDB Critic
2023-06-09
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 midst - but not for long, and what now ensues is a cleverly written and staged murder mystery that pits each of them against the other in an entertaining and funny ninety minutes complete with a rope a...
