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- 2001
- Robert Altman
- 131 mins
- 15
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Ensemble murder mystery from the writer of Downton Abbey and featuring Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon and Helen Mirren. In 1930s rural England, a battery of well-to-do guests and their servants attend a weekend's shooting and socialising. But their reverie is shattered by a murder, after which everyone is a suspect.
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A star rating of 4 out of 5.
Andrew Collins
At his prime, during the 1970s, maverick director Robert Altman would take an established genre and turn it on its head - the war movie with MASH, the western with McCabe and Mrs Miller, the private-eye thriller with The Long Goodbye. With Gosford Park he was back and firing on all cylinders, imposing the same trick on the English country-house murder mystery. A huge cast of mostly British thespians - including Richard E Grant, Emily Watson, Kelly Macdonald and Clive Owen - fleshes out the part whodunnit, part Upstairs, Downstairs satire, while Altman assuredly presents the 1930s-set drama from the servants' perspective. The opening scene - when the guests and their maids and valets arrive at Gosford Park - is as good as anything Altman's done in 30 years: multilayered and impeccably choreographed. Meanwhile, the dramatic pace is maintained thanks to some sparkling dialogue - the acidic Oscar-winning script is by Julian Fellowes, prior to creating hugely successful TV series Downton Abbey - and fine performances. It has all the makings of a classic, but then Stephen Fry's bumbling detective arrives and a surfeit of irony defuses the exquisitely constructed mood.
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rolenameConstance, Countess of TrenthamMaggie SmithSir William McCordleMichael GambonLady Sylvia McCordleKristin Scott ThomasElsieEmily WatsonMary MaceachranKelly MacdonaldRobert ParksClive OwenMrs WilsonHelen MirrenMrs CroftEileen AtkinsJenningsAlan BatesProbertDerek JacobiMorris WeissmanBob BalabanIvor NovelloJeremy NorthamHenry DentonRyan PhillippeGeorgeRichard E GrantInspector ThompsonStephen FryRaymond, Lord StockbridgeCharles DanceLouisa, Lady StockbridgeGeraldine SomervilleLt Commander Anthony MeredithTom HollanderLavinia MeredithNatasha WightmanDorothySophie ThompsonFreddieJames WilbyIsobel McCordleCamilla RutherfordBarnesAdrian Scarborough
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rolenameDirectorRobert Altman
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Theatrical distributor
Entertainment
Released on
2002-02-01
Languages
English | Latin
Guidance
Swearing, sex scenes.
Available on
video, DVD and Blu-ray
Formats
Colour
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