Mr. Holmes
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| Directed by | Bill Condon |
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| Screenplay by | Jeffrey Hatcher |
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| Music by | Carter Burwell |
| Cinematography | Tobias A. Schliessler |
| Edited by | Virginia Katz |
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| Language | English |
| Box office | $29.4 million |
Mr. Holmes is a 2015 British–American crime drama mystery film, directed by Bill Condon, based on Mitch Cullin's 2005 novel A Slight Trick of the Mind, and featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. The film stars Ian McKellen as Sherlock Holmes, Laura Linney as his housekeeper Mrs. Munro and Milo Parker as her son Roger. Set primarily during his retirement, the film follows a 93-year-old Holmes who struggles to recall the details of his final case while his mind begins to deteriorate.
Principal photography began on 5 July 2014, in London. The film was screened out of competition at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival and had its premiere on 7 February 2015.
The film was released in British cinemas on 19 June 2015, and in the United States on 17 July 2015.
In 1947, the long-retired Sherlock Holmes, aged 93, lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse with his housekeeper, Mrs Munro, and her young son Roger. Having just returned from a trip to Hiroshima, he starts to use jelly made from the prickly ash plant he acquired there to improve his failing memory. Unhappy about his ex-partner Watson's fictionalisation of Holmes's last case, The Adventure of the Dove Grey Glove, he hopes to write his own account but has trouble recalling the events. As Holmes spends time with Roger, showing him how to take care of the bees in the farmhouse's apiary, he comes to appreciate Roger's curiosity and intelligence and develops a paternal liking for him.
Over time, Roger's prodding helps Holmes remember the case (shown in flashbacks) and why he retired from the detective business. About 30 years earlier, after the First World War had ended and Watson had left Baker Street, a man named Thomas Kelmot approached Holmes to find out why his wife Ann had changed so much after suffering two miscarriages. Holmes followed Ann around London and observed her taking certain actions - forging cheques in her husband's name and cashing them, reviewing the details of his will, buying poison, checking train schedules – which made it appear as if she were planning to murder Thomas and inherit his property. Holmes deduced her true intentions: to have gravestones made for herself and her miscarried children and then commit suicide with the poison. Confronting her, he claimed to understand her sense of loneliness and isolation and confessed he had those same feelings. Ann asked Holmes if they could share the burden of their loneliness together. Holmes urged her to return to her husband. She poured the poison on the ground, thanked Holmes, and departed. Holmes later learned that she had killed herself by stepping in front of an oncoming train; blaming himself for her death, he retired from the detective business.
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