Clue

A group of people are invited to the home of Mr. Boddy, for reasons unknown. They soon discover they have all been blackmailed, and almost immediately after the revelation, Boddy is found dead. They all had a motive: but which one of them was it?

This film has an excellent cast, especially the men. Tim Curry as Wadsworth the Butler, Christopher Lloyd as the smooth womanizer Professor Plum, Michael McKean as homosexual Mr. Green and Martin Mull as Colonel Mustard. The women's roles are much less star-studded, but all played very well, indeed. Some have said that the women's roles are better-written. Perhaps.

The beauty of this film is that it takes a board game about murder and makes the story both believable and incredibly humorous. Yes, kids, murder can be fun, as long as you have Tim Curry running the show. And there is a hint of a political message: "Communism was just a red herring." This is repeated three times -- does it have a grand significance, or is it just a joke about the word "red"? Did the film need to be set in 1954?

Following in the footsteps of such great comedic mysteries as "The Private Eyes", if you have not seen "Clue" (and cable television used to re-run the heck out of it) you should give it a shot. If nothing else, you cannot say no to Tim Curry.