Rent Agatha and the Midnight Murders (2020)
2.8 of 5 from 120 ratings
1h 30min
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- Synopsis:
London 1940: As the Blitz rages and her future is threatened by fallout from the war, Agatha Christie (Helen Baxendale) makes the decision to kill off her most famous creation. After twelve Poirot novels in six years, Agatha should be a rich woman. Instead, she's struggling to make ends meet. Killing Poirot in the midst of this turmoil seems almost spiteful, but Agatha has a plan: she's selling the novel to a private buyer, a super-fan who will pay anything to own a piece of history. A meeting at an infamous London hotel is arranged, where despite the presence of an old friend, things quickly go wrong. As the bombs fall and the bodies pile up, the real danger of her situation becomes apparent: the only thing more valuable than the last ever Poirot novel is the last ever book written by Agatha Christie. - Actors:
- Helen Baxendale, Blake Harrison, Jacqueline Boatswain, Gina Bramhill, Daniel Caltagirone, Thomas Chaanhing, Scott Chambers, Vanessa Grasse, Jodie McNee, Elizabeth Tan, Morgan Watkins, Alistair Petrie
- Directors:
- Joe Stephenson
- Producers:
- Tom Dalton, Carol Harding
- Writers:
- Tom Dalton
- Studio:
- Dazzler
- Genres:
- Drama
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 23/11/2020
- Run Time:
- 90 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
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Reviews (5) of Agatha and the Midnight Murders
Amateur Hour - Agatha and the Midnight Murders review by JD
Very poor.
Who gave the go ahead to green light this movie ?
Some of the worst acting and accents I have seen in a while.
Don’t bother.
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Amazingly bad. - Agatha and the Midnight Murders review by JH
Agatha & the Midnight Murders was quite startlingly terrible. The budget looked so thin you could practically see the actors handing money to the set designers to cheer things up. Both the plot & the script were ridiculous. I felt sorry for the poor actors who were reduced to hamming up foreign accents to frankly offensive levels. I was reminded of Victoria Wood's Acorn Antiques sketches, TV comedy 'Allo Allo', but none of it in a good way. If you fancy spending the best part of two hours, repeatedly asking yourself the question, "Surely this cannot get any worse", then this is the film for you!
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I think I might know why this is so bad - Agatha and the Midnight Murders review by JR
Hats off to anyone who can get a film made, that never changes. But this is so eye-wateringly bad you have to ask why. My theory? Shot back to back with a subsequently well-reviewed Agatha film on location in Malta, my guess is that this was just the first draft of a script they suddenly thought they could shoot “while we’re out there” - cos it is about three locations and lots of talk. (And possibly use up some sort of Maltese tax break - completely legal and very common.) Doesn’t work out for them I’m afraid.
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