Agreeable picture dealing with Agatha Christie's (Vanessa Redgrave) still unexplained disappearance and the fictional American reporter's efforts to find her . After suffering a heartbreak when her husband (Timothy Dalton) asks for a divorce to marry the employee Nancy Steele , Agatha disappears taking refuge in a spa under a false identity . The police (Timothy West) and some of her followers undertake a relentless search to find the writer , but it will be an American journalist called Wally Stanton (Dustin Hoffman) who will be closest to her to discover her intentions . A fictional solution to the real mystery of Agatha Christie's disappearance !.
Supposedly based on a true event in the life of mystery novelist Agatha Christie during in which she disappeared for eleven days in 1926 , this is a moderately effective thriller . On December 4, after publishing his novel ¨the death of Roger Ackroyd¨, its author, the very famous writer of mystery novels Agatha Christie disappears. The scriptwriters fabled about this fact and the author's descendants sued the production companies trying to prevent its premiere . They lost the trial and Michael Apted 's film was eventually released in the US a year after its completion . Main and support cast are frankly well. Vanessa Redgrave is good in the title role , but Dustin Hoffman is miscast as the American journalist on her trail . Unfortunately, Hoffman and Redgrave generate few sparks and there's not chemistry enough . They're well accompanied by a nice British secondary cast , such as : Timothy West , Helen Morse , Alan Badel , Celia Gregory , Paul Brooke , Carolyn Pickles , Tony Britton and Timothy Dalton pre- James Bond films.
It contains a glamorous and brilliant cinematography by the great Italian cameraman Vittorio Storaro. As well as lively and sensitive musical score by Johnny Mandel , including catching song : Close Enough for Love sung by Pattie Brooks and Lyrics by Paul Williams . The motion picture was professionally directed by recently deceased Michael Apted . He was good writer/ producer/director of several successes , such as : ¨The word is not enough¨, ¨Gorillas in the mist¨ , ¨Class action¨, ¨Nell¨, ¨Enigma¨, ¨The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader¨, among others . Rating : 6.5/10 , above average and worthwhile seeing , the whole family will enjoy this film . It's a very likeable mystery/thriller movie and enormously appealing for knowing Agatha Christie life. Overall this is a really enjoyable movie . If you are familiar with the story, then there are no real surprises, but makes up for it with stunning interpretations from Vanessa Redgrave and Dustin Hoffman.
Supposedly based on a true event in the life of mystery novelist Agatha Christie during in which she disappeared for eleven days in 1926 , this is a moderately effective thriller . On December 4, after publishing his novel ¨the death of Roger Ackroyd¨, its author, the very famous writer of mystery novels Agatha Christie disappears. The scriptwriters fabled about this fact and the author's descendants sued the production companies trying to prevent its premiere . They lost the trial and Michael Apted 's film was eventually released in the US a year after its completion . Main and support cast are frankly well. Vanessa Redgrave is good in the title role , but Dustin Hoffman is miscast as the American journalist on her trail . Unfortunately, Hoffman and Redgrave generate few sparks and there's not chemistry enough . They're well accompanied by a nice British secondary cast , such as : Timothy West , Helen Morse , Alan Badel , Celia Gregory , Paul Brooke , Carolyn Pickles , Tony Britton and Timothy Dalton pre- James Bond films.
It contains a glamorous and brilliant cinematography by the great Italian cameraman Vittorio Storaro. As well as lively and sensitive musical score by Johnny Mandel , including catching song : Close Enough for Love sung by Pattie Brooks and Lyrics by Paul Williams . The motion picture was professionally directed by recently deceased Michael Apted . He was good writer/ producer/director of several successes , such as : ¨The word is not enough¨, ¨Gorillas in the mist¨ , ¨Class action¨, ¨Nell¨, ¨Enigma¨, ¨The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader¨, among others . Rating : 6.5/10 , above average and worthwhile seeing , the whole family will enjoy this film . It's a very likeable mystery/thriller movie and enormously appealing for knowing Agatha Christie life. Overall this is a really enjoyable movie . If you are familiar with the story, then there are no real surprises, but makes up for it with stunning interpretations from Vanessa Redgrave and Dustin Hoffman.