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Thirteen at Dinner

1985

Suspense/Thriller

Crime

TV Movie

1h 27m

Hercule Poirot appears on a TV talk show with actor Bryan Martin who is making an action/detective movie with Jane Wilkinson. He also meets impressionist Carlotta Adams. They all go to a party and Jane asks him and Captain Hastings to go and meet her husband, Lord Edgware in regards to a divorce. They do so, to discover that the Lord had already granted her a divorce. Jane is delighted but drops hints that she could have killed the Lord if he didn't grant her the divorce... (imdb)

Directed by:

Lou Antonio

Written by:

Agatha Christie Rod Browning

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Starring:

Faye Dunaway

Bill Nighy

Peter Ustinov

David Suchet John Stride Benedict Taylor Amanda Pays Lee Horsley Allan Cuthbertson Diane Keen Jonathan Cecil John Barron

Franchise:

Hercule Poirot

Genres:

Suspense/Thriller, Crime, Mystery

Countries:

UK, USA

Language:

English

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Thirteen at Dinner

1985

Suspense/Thriller

Crime

TV Movie

1h 27m

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spleen

Rated 25 Jan 2011

Mediocre Agatha Christie book receives mediocre treatment. Peter Ustinov plays his typical interpretation of the Belgium detective (English style) and Faye Dunaway is, not surprisingly, annoying over the top. My only motivation for finishing it was the hope that maybe she'd fall down a flight of stairs and lapse into a coma.

Rated 25 Jan 2011

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Sheldrake

Rated 26 Aug 2013

One of the more cohesive of the Ustinov Poirot's sadly suffers from being one of the more predictable. In spite of that, there's a lot of good humor and it's nice to see Poirot working in England for once, and, as usual, against a bunch of nutty Americans.

Rated 26 Aug 2013

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radumsmn

Rated 15 Jan 2017

Not sure if real life Poirot would make sense of this mess.

Rated 15 Jan 2017

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hotsake

Rated 20 Jun 2022

It was strange seeing David Suchet in this as a different character. I'm not really that big of a fan of Ustinov's Poirot and I find his Poirot too pompous and silly for my liking. Another strange thing about this adaptation was that it takes place in a modern setting.

Rated 20 Jun 2022

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Ununnilium

Rated 28 Jun 2020

Aggressively mediocre except where it's randomly weird, with a modern setting that only seems to have happened because they ran out of money for period props. Ustinov is fun as ever, of course, and David Suchet is a delight, even more so if you're familiar with his Poirot. But this fails to make the mystery coherent and fails to give us other reasons to care.

Rated 28 Jun 2020

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driscarpin

Rated 19 Oct 2020

Treze à mesa estreava há 35 anos nos EUA. Adoro o Poirot do Ustinov no cinema, mas esse filme pra TV é bem mais ou menos, a curiosidade fica por conta de eu nunca ter visto o Bill Nighy tão novinho e a presença de David Suchet como inspetor bobão antes dele ficar famoso ele mesmo como Poirot da série de TV. Box Obras-Primas Agatha Christie Volume 1.

Rated 19 Oct 2020

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