Ransom ( Chris Evans) is his spoilt, rich grandson, and sulky teenager Jacob (Jaeden Martell) is a creepy alt-right internet troll. For his birthday, this wealthy patriarch invites his dysfunctional clan for a big party – realtor daughter Linda (Jamie Lee Curtis) and son-in-law Richard (Don Johnson) his son, Walt ( Michael Shannon), tasked with administrating his lucrative literary estate grasping, widowed daughter-in-law Joni ( Toni Collette), whose own daughter Meg (Katharine Langford) depends on Harlan to pay her postgrad college fees. And Mr Blanc, with his cigar and the studied insolence and timing of his questions, has something of Peter Falk’s much-missed Lieutenant Columbo.Ĭhristopher Plummer plays Harlan Thrombey, the 85-year-old bestselling mystery novelist whose chef d’oeuvre is 1000 Knives, a masterpiece that has inspired a bizarre decorative centrepiece in the drawing room of his vast rococo mansion: a huge “wheel” of sharp knives. It’s a Cluedo-board romp in the manner of Agatha Christie or TV’s Murder, She Wrote starring Angela Lansbury.
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