Family FavoritePG

Clue

It's not just a game anymore.

1985 • 94 min • Comedy · Thriller · Crime · Mystery

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Synopsis

Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, the guests and Boddy's chatty butler must suss out the culprit before the body count rises.

Our family guide

Best from age 11

Movie Knight Score

2018 reviews

83 Reviewers · 6 · 69%
72 Audience · 2012 · 31%

In this comedic mystery based on the classic board game, six dinner guests are blackmailed by their host, who then turns up dead. Trapped in a remote mansion, they, along with the butler, race to uncover the killer before the body count rises. Expect laughs and surprises around every corner.

Violence & peril: 3/10
Language: 2/10
Drinking, drugs & smoking: 3/10
Romance & sensuality: 1/10
Scary moments: 3/10

Heads up

Discussions of blackmail and secrets
Mild peril in a spooky mansion
Implied but not explicit violence

What it models well

Cooperation to solve problems
Facing consequences of actions
Thinking critically and observing

Talk about it after

Who do you think was the killer and why?
How do secrets and lies complicate things?
Discuss how the characters react to pressure.

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Top billed cast

Director: Jonathan Lynn • Crew: Jonathan Lynn, John Landis, Jonathan Lynn

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Reviewer notes

Not recommended
Promising plot, good cast, director and producer of renown - this movie has all the ingredients for an all-time classic. It has just one flaw. It is supposed to be funny, and it isn't.
jw, TMDB Community

Recommended
Tim Curry and Eileen Brennan are great in this dramatised game of "Cleudo". The former is butler "Wadsworth" who is to welcome a select gathering of guests to his employer's stately pile for a dinner with a difference. Once assembled, we discover that these ostensibly upstanding folks are all really miscreants and that they were all being blackmailed!…
CinemaSerf, TMDB Community

Recommended
Randomly decided to re-watch this classic crime-comedy and still works today. Plenty of fun throughout and a great ensemble cast. **3.75/5**
JPV852, TMDB Community

Recommended
Those three alternate endings were still very confusing. But it was still humorous nonetheless.
Peter89Spencer, TMDB Community

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers
Cluedo Chaos. Clue is directed by Jonathan Lynn and he co-writes with John Landis and Anthony E. Pratt. It stars Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Christopher Lloyd, Madeline Kahn, Michael McKean, Martin Mull, Lesley Ann Warren, Colleen Camp and Lee Ving. Music is by John Morris and cinematography by Victor J. Kemper. Based on the board game Cluedo, plot finds six guests anonymously invited to a large mansion for dinner.…
John Chard, TMDB Community

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers
**_An amusing take on “And Then There Were None” and “Murder by Death”_** RELEASED IN 1985 and directed by Jonathan Lynn, "Clue" is a comedic murder mystery based on the board game featuring an “all-star” cast (Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd, Eileen Brennan, Lesley Ann Warren, etc.).…
Wuchak, TMDB Community