Clue

UPC: 097360184044

Studio: Paramount

MPAA Rating: PG   Contains:[Mild Violence, Questionable for Children, Adult Language]

Summary: In this spoof of McCarthy-era paranoia and 1950s wholesomeness, the characters and plot are drawn from the popular Parker Brothers board game of the same name. On a dark and stormy night in 1954, six individuals with ties to Washington are assembled for a dinner party at the swanky mansion of one Mr. Boddy (Lee Ving). Boddy's butler, Wadsworth (Tim Curry), assigns each guest a colorful name: Mr. Green (Michael McKean), Col. Mustard (Martin Mull), Mrs. Peacock (Eileen Brennan), Professor Plum (Christopher Lloyd), Miss Scarlet (Lesley Ann Warren), and Mrs. White (Madeline Kahn). Two additional servants, the Cook (Kellye Nakahara) and Yvette, the maid (Colleen Camp), assist Wadsworth as he informs the guests that they have been gathered to meet the man who has been blackmailing them: Mr. Boddy. When Boddy turns up dead, however, the guests must try to figure out who killed him so they can protect their own reputations and keep the body count from growing. Three separate endings were filmed for Clue and shown in different theaters; all three are collected for the video edition. Although the film is set in the 1950s, the original Clue game was actually devised by Anthony Pratt, a clerk in Leeds, England, to pass the time during World War II air-raid drills. First released in 1946 under the name Cluedo by British manufacturer Waddington's, Clue was renamed and released in the U.S. in 1949. Today, Clue/Cluedo is marketed in 70 countries around the world and has been adapted into a British game show and an off-Broadway musical. ~ Brian J. Dillard, Rovi

Category: Comedy

Features: Widescreen version enhanced for 16x9
Dolby Digital: English mono; French mono
English subtitles
Interactive menus
Scene selection
Theatrical trailer
3 different surprise endings

Clue

Format: DVD

Release Date: 06/27/2000

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Theatre Wide-Screen

Audio: 1 USA & territories, Canada

Runtime: 96 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French

Subtitles: English

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Side #1
0. Scene Selection
1. Hill House [4:36]
2. The Guests Arrive [5:36]
3. Dinner Is Served [5:08]
4. Mr. Boddy [3:24]
5. Blackmail [6:17]
6. The Weapons [2:40]
7. Opportunity And Motive [6:22]
8. Life After Death [5:03]
9. The Key [3:45]
10. Search The House [8:32]
11. The Secret Passage [5:04]
12. All Too Shocking [6:14]
13. Three Murders [4:56]
14. Wadsworth Explains Everything [11:10]
15. Trilogy Ending [17:50]

Brian J. Dillard

An A-list cast makes this B-quality premise work, but none of it would hold together if writer/director Jonathan Lynn and his co-writer John Landis hadn't taken the board game Clue as a mere jumping-off point for over-the-top satire. Clue the film takes broad aim at every thriller convention -- and every hypocrisy of mid-century America, from boozed-up senator's wives and illicit sexuality to Cold War profiteers and the secret life of J. Edgar Hoover. Tim Curry, Martin Mull, Lesley Ann Warren, and Madeline Kahn are only the most notable names in a cast whose comic credentials could float a project with far more prestige than this one. They all prove game, however, especially Warren as the slatternly Miss Scarlet and Kahn as the frequently apoplectic Mrs. White. With improbable plot twists, slapstick suspense, obnoxious puns, and haunted-house set pieces -- the filmmakers employ anything they can to get the audience laughing. Although such a kitchen-sink approach has been used in films from Airplane to Scary Movie, it's rarely been employed as effectively as this. ~ Brian J. Dillard, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Jeffrey Kramer  Actor 
Kellye Nakahara  Actor 
Danny Costa  Actor 
Bill McIntosh  Actor 
Howard Hesseman  Actor 
Janet Hirshenson  Actor 
Will Nye  Actor 
Don Camp  Actor 
Bill Henderson  Actor 
Jane Wiedlin  Actor 
Jane Jenkins  Actor 
John-Clay Scott  Actor 
Rick Goldman  Actor 
George Folsey, Jr.  Executive Producer 
George Folsey, Jr.  Producer 
Peter Guber  Executive Producer 
Peter Guber  Producer 
Debra Hill  Producer 
John Landis  Executive Producer 
John Landis  Producer 
John Landis  Screenwriter 
Jonathan Lynn  Director 
Jonathan Lynn  Screenwriter 
John Morris  Composer (Music Score) 
Jon Peters  Executive Producer 
Jon Peters  Producer 
Eileen Brennan  Actor 
Tim Curry  Actor 
Madeline Kahn  Actor 
Martin Mull  Actor 
Christopher Lloyd  Actor 
Lesley Ann Warren  Actor 
Michael McKean  Actor 
Colleen Camp  Actor 
Lee Ving  Actor 

Country: USA