Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials

Matt Roush says...

Set in post-WWI England in the 1920s, this diverting loose adaptation of an Agatha Christie classic (in three parts) features an amateur sleuth: spunky socialite Lady Eileen “Bundle” Brent (Mia McKenna-Bruce), in whose family’s country estate a suspicious death occurs following a lavish party. The body is found amid the clatter of seven artfully arranged alarm clocks, which Bundle suspects has something to do with a mysterious entity known only as “Seven Dials.” Bundle’s mother, Lady Caterham (a frazzled Helena Bonham Carter), warns her, “It doesn’t pay to ask too many questions,” and Scotland Yard’s Superintendent Battle (a droll Martin Freeman) also wishes she’d stay out of it. But there wouldn’t be much of a story if she listened to reason, would there?

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