Sleuth is based on the play of the same name written by Anthony Shaffer.
Laurence Olivier & Michael Caine, playing an aristocratic jilted husband and the wife's new young Italian lover respectively, decide to play mind games in an attempt to one-up each other and feed their own bruised egos.
As mentioned this was adapted from a playscript and it REALLY shows. Aside from the opening scene the entire 2 hours and 18 minutes of the movie take place in one of two rooms of the house. The two actors had to carry this throughout, thankfully both were BEASTS and not a second of screen time was wasted.
This was an oddball of a movie, clever and completely fluff free yet entertaining from beginning to end.
Laurence Olivier & Michael Caine, playing an aristocratic jilted husband and the wife's new young Italian lover respectively, decide to play mind games in an attempt to one-up each other and feed their own bruised egos.
As mentioned this was adapted from a playscript and it REALLY shows. Aside from the opening scene the entire 2 hours and 18 minutes of the movie take place in one of two rooms of the house. The two actors had to carry this throughout, thankfully both were BEASTS and not a second of screen time was wasted.
This was an oddball of a movie, clever and completely fluff free yet entertaining from beginning to end.