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Part of the A Nightmare on Franklin Street 2026 series**********************************************************
1h 34m / PG / Comedy, Mystery
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.
We’re very happy to return Clue to our big screen, in gratitude to our members for their vital and generous support and in remembrance of Tim Curry, who spent an incredible career entertaining us across decades and dozens of characters.
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A Nightmare on Franklin Street series is presented by Bank of America. View the full series at https://tampatheatre.org/nightmare
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Tampa Theatre, 707 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL 33602-4400, United States
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