Storyline
In the West End of 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after a pivotal member of the crew is murdered. When world-weary Inspector Stoppard and eager rookie Constable Stalker take on the case, the two find themselves thrown into a puzzling whodunit within the glamorously sordid theater underground, investigating the mysterious homicide at their own peril.
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Cast
Sam Rockwell, Adrien Brody, Saoirse Ronan, David Oyelowo, Maggie McCarthy, Shirley Henderson, Tim Key, Reece Shearsmith, Lucian Msamati, Paul Chahidi, Ruth Wilson, Pearl Chanda, Philip Desmeules, Ania Marson, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Harris Dickinson, Tolu Ogunmefun, Charlie Cooper, Angus Wright, Sian Clifford, Gregory Cox, Laura Morgan, Kieran Hodgson
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Reviews
80
There’s a very entertaining daftness and theatre nerdery to See How They Run (the title sounds uncomfortably like Run For Your Wife) as director Tom George takes the same approach to The Mousetrap that Ken Russell took to The Boyfriend: playing up the artificiality of it all. The comedy is shallow in the right way, and Rockwell’s bleary world-weariness contrasts nicely with Ronan’s saucer-eyed idealism.
80
See How They Run is a retro homage that surprises audiences with giggles and suspense.
80
It works better as a weird relationship movie than a murder-mystery but See How They Run is the whodunnit as hoot, with lots of laughs, oodles of style and played with verve by a quality cast. It also reconfirms Saoirse Ronan as a comedy god.
70
Is it exceptionally groundbreaking? No. But it's fun, and frothy, and clever enough that it makes for an easygoing hour and a half watch.
63
Oh, it’s not as clever as it thinks it is. And truthfully, for a “romp” it only occasionally romps. But See How They Run is still a warm, witty and winning old fashioned “whodunit” and an equally old-fashioned “theater” comedy, pronounced “THEE-a-turr” in the British style. I found it an old fashioned hoot.
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