Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
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.
- blackmail
- butler
- board game
- mansion
- whodunit
- maid
- old house
- one by one
- secret passageway
- murder mystery
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Michael McKean — Mr. Green
- Martin Mull — Colonel Mustard
- Lesley Ann Warren — Miss Scarlet
- Colleen Camp — Yvette
- Lee Ving — Mr. Boddy
- Bill Henderson — The Cop
- Jane Wiedlin — The Singing Telegram Girl
- Jeffrey Kramer — The Motorist
- Kellye Nakahara — The Cook
- Will Nye — Cop #1
- Rick Goldman — Cop #2
- Directed
- Jonathan Lynn
- Written
- Jonathan Lynn, John Landis
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 2,049 ratings
- Studio
- Debra Hill Productions, Paramount Pictures, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, The Guber-Peters Company
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
