Sleuth (2007)

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Rating: R

Release Date: Oct 12, 2007

Running Time: 88 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

Country Of Origin: United Kingdom

starring: Michael Caine, Jude Law, Harold Pinter, Carmel O'Sullivan

director: Kenneth Branagh

Sleuth

The updated story of a wealthy writer of detective stories, and an aspiring yet out-of-work actor who is having an affair with the writer's wife. The writer's exquisitely modernized Georgian manor, becomes the backdrop for a cat and mouse game that pits one creative mind against another.

For all its high-tech bells and whistles, director Kenneth Branagh's modernization of the 1972 black comedy remains a remake we could live without, especially when it takes a serious turn for the worse.

Story

In the original Sleuth, Laurence Olivier's cuckolded crime novelist engaged in mind games with Michael Caine's callow hairdresser. Now it's Caine turn to torment the young man who's sleeping with his wifeonly Caine's in possession of a state-of-the-art surveillance system to help him beat…