Name: Clue (1985)
Start: 2025-10-23T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Tampa Theatre

13th Annual "A Nightmare on Franklin Street" series
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1h 34m / PG / Comedy, Mystery
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There’s kind of a lot going on in Clue. Certainly more than you’d expect from a movie based, rather faithfully, on an old board game. It’s a tightly scripted screwball comedy pulling from influences like Howard Hawks and the Marx Brothers. But like the game it’s also sort of an Agatha-Christie-style drawing room murder mystery, with each of the characters taking their turns playing (inept) detective and concealing their own motive. On top of all that it’s an ensemble piece — Madeline Kahn, Tim Curry, Christopher Lloyd and a whole 1980s roll-call of funny character actors all show up. There’s even a story credit by John Landis!
Most famously there’s also the incredibly ambitious attempt at an interactive and multi-threaded series of endings that let the audience decide what happened and drove the movie from being a failure at the cinema to a cult success on TV. Turns out people were more frustrated with than fascinated by the experience of not seeing the same film as everyone else.

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Support for the 2025 A Nightmare on Franklin Street series is provided by the following sponsors: “Mummy & Me” screenings are sponsored by Tampa Electric. Additional support is provided by First Florida Insurance Brokers. Promotional support is provided by Tampa Bay Parenting Magazine and Scaradise.