Sleuth (2007 film)
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| Directed by | Kenneth Branagh |
| Produced by | Kenneth Branagh Simon Halfon Jude Law Simon Moseley Marion Pilowsky Tom Sternberg |
| Screenplay by | Harold Pinter |
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Sleuth by Anthony Shaffer |
| Starring |
Michael Caine Jude Law |
| Music by | Patrick Doyle |
| Cinematography | Haris Zambarloukos |
| Edited by | Neil Farrell |
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| Distributed by | Sony Pictures Classics |
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88 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $4,872,444 |
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| Soundtrack album by Patrick Doyle | |
| Released | 9 October 2007 |
| Recorded | Air Lyndhurst Studios, London |
| Genre | Film soundtrack |
| Label | Varèse Sarabande |
| Producer | Maggie Rodford, Robert Townson |
Sleuth is a 2007 thriller film directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring Jude Law and Michael Caine. The screenplay by Harold Pinter is an adaptation of Anthony Shaffer's Tony Award-winning play Sleuth. Caine had previously starred in a 1972 version, where he played Law's role against Laurence Olivier.
"A millionaire detective novelist matches wits with the unemployed actor who ran off with his wife in a deadly serious, seriously twisted game with dangerous consequences." The film does not use Anthony Shaffer's original dialogue; instead it uses a completely rewritten script by Harold Pinter, while retaining the basic idea. There are a few very significant changes:
The 2007 version is nearly an hour shorter than the 1972 version.
Caine had starred as hairdresser Milo Tindle opposite Laurence Olivier's novelist Andrew Wyke in the 1972 film Sleuth, with each being nominated for an Academy Award for his performance. In the 2007 film, Caine took the role of Wyke, and Law took Caine's role of Tindle.
This was the second time Law performed a film character originated by Caine, the first having been the title role of Alfie. Caine himself had previously starred in two different roles for two versions of Get Carter.
According to many accounts, this set out to be a remake of the 1972 version, but Pinter's screenplay-offered "a fresh take" on Shaffer's play and "a very different form" from the original film.
In his review of the film's debut at the 2007 Venice Film Festival, Roderick Conway Morris observed: "The reworking of the play is not just an adept transformation of theatre to film ... but also casts a revealing light on social history, reflecting the enormous changes in English society, language and morals in the nearly 40 years since the play first appeared on the London stage."
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