Agatha Summary
Director: Michael Apted
Genres: Drama, Mystery
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What happened when best-selling mystery novelist Agatha_Christie disappeared for 11 days back in 1926? The British Agatha "answers" that question. Vanessa_Redgrave is cast as Ms._Christie, who vanished from her home not long after her husband (Timothy_Dalton) informed her that he was leaving her. Nearly two weeks later, after being the subject of a nationwide search, Christie showed up none the worse for wear at a health spa in Yorkshire, insisting that she could remember nothing of her experiences during her disappearance. According to scriptwriters Kathleen_Tynan and Arthur_Hopcraft, Christie was located before her return by American reporter Wally Stanton (an uncomfortable-looking Dustin_Hoffman), after enjoying a brief romantic fling with the authoress. The journalist decided to keep his discovery a secret. Another plot wrinkle concerns Christie's plan for revenge against her errant husband -- a scheme with all the earmarks of a Miss_Marple or Poirot whodunit. Agatha represented former TV director Michael_Apted's matriculation to A-pictures with major stars; he fared better with his subsequent endeavor, Coal_Miner's_Daughter (1980). Hal Erickson, Rovi
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