
By Matthew E. Milliken
MEMwrites.wordpress.com
Aug. 15, 2020
Rian Johnson’s 2019 feature, Knives Out, is an amusing mystery revolving around the apparent death of a wealthy mystery author by his own hand.
The decedent is Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer), who resides in an elegant three-story mansion on a large estate somewhere outside Boston. The morning after his 85th birthday party — a lavish affair attended by his son, daughter, daughter-in-law and their assorted children — Thrombey’s body was discovered by the housekeeper, Fran (Edi Patterson).
A week has passed since then, but even though the police were about to close the case as suicide, they’ve called all of the party attendees to the house for further questioning. The continued investigation, it emerges, is prompted by a renowned private detective named Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig essaying a so-so Southern accent), who’s been hired by — well, he actually doesn’t know who hired him.
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