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"Agatha Christie: Poirot" Five Little Pigs (2003)



Overview

User Rating:
7.7/10   702 votes
Director:
Paul Unwin
Writers:
Agatha Christie (novel)
Kevin Elyot (screenplay)
Contact:
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Original Air Date:
14 December 2003 (Season 9, Episode 1)
Plot:
Lucy Crale enlists Poirot to investigate the fourteen-year-old murder case in which her mother was hanged for poisoning her philandering painter father. full summary | add synopsis
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Cast

  (Episode Cast overview, first billed only)
David Suchet ... Hercule Poirot

Rachael Stirling ... Caroline Crale
Aidan Gillen ... Amyas Crale
Toby Stephens ... Philip Blake
Marc Warren ... Meredith Blake

Aimee Mullins ... Lucy Crale

Julie Cox ... Elsa Greer
Gemma Jones ... Miss Williams

Sophie Winkleman ... Angela Warren
Talulah Riley ... Young Angela

Patrick Malahide ... Depleach
Annette Badland ... Mrs. Spriggs
Roger Brierley ... Judge
Richard Teverson ... Hollinghurst
Melissa Suffield ... Young Lucy
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Additional Details

Runtime:
100 min | Finland:94 min
Country:
UK
Language:
Italian | English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.78 : 1 more
Certification:
Australia:M

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Meredith Blake is also the name given to a character in The Parent Trap (1998). more
Quotes:
Hercule Poirot: The truth, it has the habit of revealing itself... more
Soundtrack:
Alice Blue Gown more

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17 out of 19 people found the following comment useful.
Heart-breaking tragedy, 27 April 2004
10/10
Author: Scott Baker (felix-38) from Melbourne Australia

This film is incredibly good. The cast is uniformly good. The direction is clever and thoughtful. The music is beautiful. The script has all the essentials of the plot and remarkably faithful to the book. I would be quite willing to say it's the best Christie adaptation so far. It's so good in fact that it could have been made for the silver screen. I even forgive the fact that it isn't set on a rocky battlement as it is in the book - the documentary on the DVD explains why - budgetary constraints - and the water garden does just as well. All the heart-breaking tragedy from the book - and it is a tragedy, even for the culprit - is there. It bodes well for the next lot of Poirot films, and so too for the upcoming Miss Marples. I thank the producers for having the courage, which has paid off handsomely. Well done.

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