Synopsis
The movie about the movie about the board game
Clue (1985) has become a cult classic film and is loved by multiple generations. Yet there has never been a documentary created to tell the behind the scenes stories...until now.
Who Done It: The Clue Documentary
Cast
Jeff C. Smith Jonathan Lynn Colleen Camp Lesley Ann Warren Michael McKean Lee Ving Syd Dutton Jane Jenkins Michael Kaplan Jeffrey Kramer Bill Taylor Nick Brandt Rebecca Brayton Logan Crow Mike DiFrancisco John Hatch Michele Kaufman Justin Lee Shanelle Riccio Mo Shafeek Ross Shotland Matt Verboys Tim Curry Christopher Lloyd Eileen Brennan Madeline Kahn Martin Mull Jane Wiedlin Kellye Nakahara Show All…
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03 Nov 2022
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It's been interesting watching the slow-burn evolution of this film's cult audience, and this feels like the culmination of that.
Not a fan of docs like this where the filmmaker turns themselves into the story. This guy in particular is not a commanding enough presence to engage you, and he does more harm than good to the movie by spending so much time on himself.
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Mister documentary director sir, shut the fuck up, you are annoying as fuck and you’re not the only one in the world that loves this movie. What an ugly mess of a documentary, absolutely shameful that such a great movie got this horrible treatment!
I’m glad to have seen some of the people that worked on the movie, that is true, but in a world where we have such amazing YouTube essays and documentaries, to get such an amateurish documentary, with zero production values, sold for actual money…well…we’re fucked as a society.
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This films starts off with a guy filming himself with his phone while driving and telling us that he has a film degree, that he was bored when he was on medical leave, and now his film degree needs to get put to good use, so that's why he's making this movie.
This is not a film degree being put to good use.
I don't want to be mean, but this sucks. This is just ROUGH and amateur to the extreme. The footage is interlaced. How hard would it have been to buy ONE microphone? Why did they deem it necessary to add 200 layers of digital noise reduction to every photo and film footage they found, rendering all of…
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I recently subscribed to the Screambox channel on Prime and happened to see this film there. Since October is fast approaching and I figured this wouldn't really be horror, I decided to give it a watch for today. This is a pretty standard documentary about the movie Clue. Director Jeff C. Smith says that Clue is one of his favorite movies and couldn't believe there haven't been any documentaries about it. Since he has a film degree, he decided to make one himself.
To give Smith some credit, he did get some pretty good interviews. He was able to interview the director Jonathan Lynn, Colleen Camp, Lesley Ann Warren, and Michael McKean were the big names from the film but…
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Mon opinion face à ce documentaire est légèrement biaisé dû au fait que je me tape régulièrement Clue depuis les années 80, mais je suis vraiment reconnaissant d'avoir enfin un document aussi complet sur le film culte de Jonathan Lynn.
Même si j'aurais préféré un montage plus serré (quelques conversations s'étirent pour rien), j'ai trouvé le film hyper informatif grâce aux entrevues des artistes et artisans qui en gardent tous un aussi bon souvenir que les fans. En espérant que Paramount nous montre, un jour, la quatrième fin qui a été tournée (photos à l'appui). 🔪
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I have been waiting several years for Who Done It, as Clue is one of my all time favorite movies, and one I consider to be top 5 funniest ever made.
This doc, though. Big miss. There's a wealth of fan-made documentaries that have been made over the years - in fact, several are mentioned in this feature as a reason the filmmaker decided one should be made about Clue. The problem with many of these fan-led docs, though, is that the focus comes more on how great everything is, and not much else. I learned nothing at all from this doc, as it was essentially just an hour and a half of every actor saying how much of a…
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Ehh. Kudos to the guy on making a thing, but just too low production value for me to enjoy. Also just goes into weird areas and doesn't focus on the production at all even though he had access to the director and most of the cast. Just strange choices. And it ends with a plug for his website. Not for me, but glad this guy is happy with making something.
Blu-ray- February 23rd 2023 -
I get that this was a passion project but this is some really poor documentary film making here. Some one should have told the director "Hey man this isn't about you"
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To be fair, I threw in the towel about 45 mins in. Director shoulda done the same!
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I must admit that it’s always a bit of a bummer when you sit down to watch a documentary about something you’re a fan of, and find out very quickly that it’s a very, very low budget documentary. Docs about pop culture touchstones and cult classic films (which Clue most definitely is) are so prevalent these days that simply not all of them are going to be professional productions.
This is definitely not a “professional” documentary, you can tell it’s pretty much homemade from the jump, but I did enjoy it. The director, Jeff C. Smith, is very enthusiastic and makes for an ingratiating host. And he scores some really good interviews with cast and crew including Michael McKean, Lesley Ann…
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I don't have anything nice to say, so that means I shouldn't say anything at all.
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Though it's informative and clearly made with a genuine love for Clue, this is very much a man-with-a-camera-interviewing-people documentary, and for me, that was a big problem. It's telling us about a deeply beloved cult comedy classic that everyone can quote, but it has no personality to match its subject. In fact, even the little 20-minute bonus documentary on the Blu-ray, about Clue's soundtrack, is ten times more visually interesting than the main feature. I did learn a few things, and it was great to see some of the surviving stars of the movie and hear their reminiscences, but come one, give us something to look at besides stills and movie clips. It's just kind of inert, and it gave me "Flames, fl--, flames on the side of my face, heaving, breathle--, heaving breaths..."