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Stephen Churchett (screenplay) and
Agatha Christie (novel)
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5 February 2006 (USA) more
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In 1951, Gwenda Halliday, a wealthy young Englishwoman recently emigrated from India, intuitively buys a seaside manor house, where she re-experiences a 1934 murder. full summary | add synopsis
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Agatha who?...makes a mess of the Christie novel... more (18 total)
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Agatha Christie - Marple: Sleeping Murder (Australia) (DVD title)
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Anachronisms: During one of the flashbacks of the Funnybones performances, Edith plays a famous tune called "Sabre Dance" on the xylophone. However this would be impossible since the song was not composed until the 1940's and the flashbacks are said to be in 1934. more
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Chief Inspector Arthur Primer:
Miss Marple, still snooping?
Miss Jane Marple:
I hate a case unsolved.
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Version of Sleeping Murder (1987) (TV) more
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Except for the high standard of acting one usually associates with the British, the handsome landscapes photographed in muted color, and the usual "things aren't what they seem at all" kind of flavor that Christie works over in all of her stories, this SLEEPING MURDER is enough to tranquilize a viewer with its many puzzlements.
It's a clumsy (awkwardly so) script that roams all over the place instead of telling a coherent story with a beginning, middle and end. The story of a young woman having flashbacks to an earlier incident in her life is a perfectly acceptable dramatic device, but the flashbacks add little to the already cluttered nature of the story.
Hardly a faithful version of the story (the earlier TV adaptation with Joan Hickson was much better), it expands for the two hour length and tedium sets in long before the inconclusive ending.
Hardly the way to start watching Agatha Christie if you're a first time viewer of her works. This one has too many flaws--most of them based on the script itself--and GERALDINE McEWAN is only passable as Jane Marple.