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Gosford Park

Gosford Park

  • Status: Released
  • 07-11-2001
  • Runtime: 137 min
  • Score: 6.829
  • Vote count: 1112

In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, each one of these interesting characters becomes a suspect.

Maggie Smith

Constance Trentham

Michael Gambon

William McCordle

Kristin Scott Thomas

Sylvia McCordle

Camilla Rutherford

Isobel McCordle

Charles Dance

Raymond Stockbridge

Geraldine Somerville

Louisa Stockbridge

Tom Hollander

Anthony Meredith

Natasha Wightman

Lavinia Meredith

Jeremy Northam

Ivor Novello

Bob Balaban

Morris Weissman

James Wilby

Freddie Nesbitt

Claudie Blakley

Mabel Nesbitt

Laurence Fox

Rupert Standish

Trent Ford

Jeremy Blond

Ryan Phillippe

Henry Denton

Stephen Fry

Inspector Thompson

Ron Webster

Constable Dexter

Kelly Macdonald

Mary Maceachran

Clive Owen

Robert Parks

Helen Mirren

Mrs. Wilson

Eileen Atkins

Mrs. Croft

Emily Watson

Elsie

Alan Bates

Jennings

Derek Jacobi

Probert

Richard E. Grant

George

Jeremy Swift

Arthur

Sophie Thompson

Dorothy

Meg Wynn Owen

Lewis

Adrian Scarborough

Barnes

Frances Low

Sarah

Joanna Maude

Renee

Teresa Churcher

Bertha

Sarah Flind

Ellen

Finty Williams

Janet

Emma Buckley

May

Lucy Cohu

Lottie

Laura Harling

Ethel

Tilly Gerrard

Maud

Will Beer

Albert

Leo Bill

Jim

Gregor Henderson-Begg

Fred

John Atterbury

Merriman

Frank Thornton

Mr. Burkett

Ron Puttock

Strutt

Adrian Preater

McCordle's Loader

John Cox

Loaders

Ken Davies

Loaders

Tony Davies

Loaders

Steve Markham

Loaders

Terry Sturmey

Loaders

Julian Such

Loaders

Alan Bland

Beaters

Peter Champion

Beaters

Geoff Double

Beaters

Robin Devereux

Beaters

John Fountain

Beaters

Richard Gamble

Beaters

Brian Rumsey

Beaters

George Sherman

Beaters

Natalie Danks-Smith

American Actress (uncredited)

sykobanana

6/10 Good acting and a solid plot for a murder mystery, but has at least 20-30 minutes of scenes that could have been trimmed, esp as it takes 90min for the murder to occur. I had figured out the key points and was falling asleep at the end...I'm still tired now, writing this.

CinemaSerf

I remember watching this and thinking it reminded me of a very exclusive game of Cleudo! The great and the (not so) good assemble at the stately home of "Sir William McCordle" (Sir Michael Gambon). Now what becomes clear as this gathering gets steadily more sloshed and satiated is that their host has been subsidising many of these high-class scroungers for quite a while and some have become a bit more dependent than others. What might they do to secure a share of his loot? Might they even slay the fatted calf himself? Well that's the mystery part that Julian Fellowes and an on-form Robert Altman deliver in this quite quirkily crafted upstairs/downstairs whodunit that swipes at just about everyone from all levels of the social scale using cruelty, lust and loads of dark, often sarcastic, humour in the process. Ryan Philippe is the obvious fish out of water amongst their glittering array of Knights and Dames, but he brings a freshness to his rather odious character ("Denton") and in many ways provides a good foil to the otherwise rather well trammelled plot portrayal of the landed vacuous and the well meaning; the pompous and the selfish. It is well written and well paced after a bit of a slow start that serves to introduce just one too many a character all at once. Kristin Scott Thomas is a natural for these sort of parts; Stephen Fry delivers effectively as the policeman "Thompson" and, of course, Dame Maggie Smith is another who takes to these roles like the proverbial duck to water. Now it is a bit long, but when juggling so many characters, potential red herrings, character assassinations and general mischief then I think this is probably about the shortest it could be. It sustains the momentum once it's got up an head of steam, looks splendid and is comfortably amongst the best of the period drama genre - without, thankfully, a sign of Jane Austen!