Sleuth is a 2007 film directed by Kenneth Branagh based on Harold Pinter's screenplay adaptation of the Tony Award-winning play Sleuth, by Anthony Shaffer, starring Jude Law and Michael Caine.
"A millionaire detective novelist matches wits with the unemployed actor who ran off with his wife in a deadly serious, seriously twisted game with dangerous consequences."
According to most accounts, the film should be a remake of the 1972 film; but Pinter...
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Sleuth is a 2007 film directed by Kenneth Branagh based on Harold Pinter's screenplay adaptation of the Tony Award-winning play Sleuth, by Anthony Shaffer, starring Jude Law and Michael Caine.
"A millionaire detective novelist matches wits with the unemployed actor who ran off with his wife in a deadly serious, seriously twisted game with dangerous consequences."
According to most accounts, the film should be a remake of the 1972 film; but Pinter's screenplay offers "a fresh take" on Shaffer's play and "a very different form" from the original film. In his review of the film's debut at the 2007 Venice Film Festival, Morris observes: "The reworking of the play is not just an adept transformation of theater to film ... but also casts a revealing light on social history, reflecting the enormous changes in English society, language and morals in the nearly 40 years since the play first appeared on the London stage."
Caine had starred as Tindle opposite Laurence Olivier's Wyke in the 1972...
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