Knives Out 2019
- Director: Rian Johnson
- Seen by this director: Star Wars the Last Jedi, Looper
- Based on the novel: no
- Cast: Daniel Craig, Ana de Armas, Chris Evans, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, LaKeith Stanfield, Christopher Plummer
- Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
- Daniel Craig – Bond etc, Defiance, Infamous, Road to Perdition, Hotel Splendide, Elizabeth
- Ana de Armas – Yesterday, Blade Runner 2049
- Chris Evans – Avengers, Scott Pilgrim vs the World, Sunshine, Fantastic Four
- Jamie Lee Curtis – Veronica Mars, A Fish Called Wanda, Trading Places
- Michael Shannon – The Shape of Water, Man of Steel, Take Shelter, The Runaways, Groundhog Day
- Don Johnson – Django Unchained, Miami Vice
- Toni Collette - Unlocked, Hereditary, Imperium, A Long Way Down, Mental, Fright Night, The Dead Girl, Night Listener, Little Miss Sunshine, In Her Shoes, The Hours, Sixth Sense, About a Boy, Hotel Splendide, Velvet Goldmine
- LaKeith Stanfield – Short Term 12
- Christopher Plummer – The Last Station, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Emotional Arithmetic, The Lake House, A Beautiful Mind, The Twelve Monkeys, Dolores Claiborne, Malcolm X, Star Trek the Undiscovered Country, Eyewitness, The Man Who Would Be King, Inside Daisy Clover, The Sound of Music
- Why? Toni Collette
- Seen: 15 January 2021.
Superrich super author Harlan Trombley (Plummer) is found dead after his 85th birthday party. Suicide? Murder?
The three children, their various spouses,
in-laws, children, and the staff are all interrogated by supersleuth Benoit
Blanc (Craig) and it appears that they all had reasons to murder him.
Gosford Park meets Sleuth
meets Agatha Christie in America. It’s funny, clever, suspenseful and
well done. There’s even a car chase, short enough to be justified. The actors
are all good but it’s especially fun to see Craig in a sort of comedy role with
a drawl as thick as molasses, as far from Bond as can be imagined.
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