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Kristin Scott Thomas as Lady Sylvia
Maggie Smith as Constance (Countess of Trentham)
Bob Balaban as Morris Weissman
Ryan Phillippe as Henry Denton (Weissman's valet)
Director is Robert Altman
Review Date is August 8, 2002
Drama-Many guests are invited to spend a weekend over at a mansion (which, I assume, is Gosford Park, since it's never mentioned in the film). Many interesting affairs happen, and someone also gets killed, and we have to find out who.
3/10-Long, way long, too long to pay attention to. I was looking at the little DVD clock and waiting until 2:18 came along. The characters were all introduced at the same time, and it was too hard to follow the characters. If they had arrived at different times, and introduced seperately, it would have been truckloads easier. I thought it was about the murder, but it didn't happen until about the middle of the film. The first half, I thought, was redundant because, I thought, the murder was the main part of the film.
I had also heard this film advertised as a comedy, so I expected it to have a mild amount of laughs-only a few. Most of them wre for British words that I have never heard of. I also didn't like how the valets went by the same name as their master, which made it even more confusing to know who's who. It's drama was also too light-heartedley, and it played more like a horrible Clue. I don't really understand why this would be nominated for Best Picture, because, frankly, it wasn't. If anything, it should have been nominated for Best Cinematography, since it was good; that, the laughter, and Maggie Smith (whom I starting to like and appreciate more as an actress) gave it it's 3.
Rated R for brief language.