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9 February 1979 (USA) moreTagline:
A fictional solution to the real mystery of Agatha Christie's disappearance.Plot:
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Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 win & 1 nomination moreUser Comments:
Agatha more (15 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Dustin Hoffman | ... | Wally Stanton |
 | Vanessa Redgrave | ... | Agatha Christie |
 | Timothy Dalton | ... | Col. Archibald Christie |
 | Helen Morse | ... | Evelyn Crawley |
| Celia Gregory | ... | Nancy Neele |
| Paul Brooke | ... | John Foster |
| Carolyn Pickles | ... | Charlotte Fisher |
| Timothy West | ... | Kenward |
| Tony Britton | ... | William Collins |
| Alan Badel | ... | Lord Brackenbury |
| Robert Longden | ... | Pettelson |
| Donald Nithsdale | ... | Uncle Jones |
| Yvonne Gilan | ... | Mrs. Braithwaite |
| Sandra Voe | ... | Therapist |
| Barry Hart | ... | Supt. MacDonald |
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1.85 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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Canada:14+ (Ontario) | Netherlands:AL | UK:A (original rating) | UK:PG (video rating) | Argentina:Atp | Australia:PG | Chile:TE | Finland:K-8 | Peru:PT | USA:PGFun Stuff
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David Puttnam was involved with the production but left when much of the script was re-written to accommodate Dustin Hoffman. David Puttnam vowed never to work with Dustin Hoffman again. moreSoundtrack:
CLOSE ENOUGH FOR LOVE moreFAQ
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In 1926, when her marriage with a stiff colonel has run down, Agatha Christie mysteriously vanishes. In the middle of both police and public investigation after the famous writer, an American journalist finds her in a Harrogate spa-hotel where, under a pseudonym, she prepares an elaborate revenge against her husband's lover.
Straightly fictitious solution to a famous and still unsolved real-life disappearance, with more attention to gleaming period detail and chillingly murky atmosphere than to suspense or credibility, while Redgrave's finely sensible portrait is downed by the somewhat strained and out-of-place casting of Hoffman as love interest. Eventually, this glossily romantic thriller has its own fascinations and is always well worth looking at, but the mystery is simply not as startling or revealing as one would expect from the Grande Dame of whodunit.