When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's disfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Harlan's untimely death.Written by
Lionsgate
Patton Oswalt contacted Rian Johnson after the film opened to ask if the needle drop of Gordon Lightfoot's "Sundown" at (1:21:47) was an intentional reference. Apparently, the song is (possibly) about a groupie Lightfoot had experience with named Cathy Evelyn Smith who's best known for being the one who gave John Belushi a fatal injection of heroin and cocaine in 1982. "And Patton, who is brilliant in his thinking in terms of 3D chess is like 'was that a crazy reference to Marta?'" See more »
Goofs
SPOILER: Blanc explains that after Marta's confession Ransom knew that she hadn't actually given Harlan an overdose of morphine, but that cannot be. After all, she herself hadn't even realized she had automatically switched back the vials so it couldn't have come out in her confession.
Marta would have explained that she had given Harlan a 100 mg dose of what she afterwards saw came from the morphine vial. Since Ransom had switched the drugs, he knew that she had given Harlan 100 mg of Toradol, the correct dosage - this is why he afterwards sought to destroy the toxicology lab and Harlan's reports, which, when combined with the autopsy report, would prove that Harlan got the correct dosage and thereby prove Marta's innocence. See more »
Quotes
Benoit Blanc:
You won, not by playing the game Harlan's way, but yours. You're a good person.
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Crazy Credits
The actors that are seen in the end credits with their names are shown as portraits. See more »
More Than This
Written by Bryan Ferry
Performed by Roxy Music
Courtesy of Virgin Records Ltd.
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises See more »
Good story with a creative and effective delivery. Very well written screenplay with all loose ends tied up together and reasonable foreshadowing and morals that echoes throughout, but there weren't any striking moments even to the point of final reveal, possibly due to the addition of yet more details approaching the end in an attempt to create a (slightly) forced satisfying end. Unnecessary characters and scenes that serve little to no purpose in the story other than for comedic effect were present, which maybe one of the reasons why audience may have a sense of emptyness when leaving the theatre. Nonetheless, Knives Out remains a fresh form of storytelling that is trying to achieve and convey more than your ordinary murder mystery.
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Good story with a creative and effective delivery. Very well written screenplay with all loose ends tied up together and reasonable foreshadowing and morals that echoes throughout, but there weren't any striking moments even to the point of final reveal, possibly due to the addition of yet more details approaching the end in an attempt to create a (slightly) forced satisfying end. Unnecessary characters and scenes that serve little to no purpose in the story other than for comedic effect were present, which maybe one of the reasons why audience may have a sense of emptyness when leaving the theatre. Nonetheless, Knives Out remains a fresh form of storytelling that is trying to achieve and convey more than your ordinary murder mystery.