An absorbing if sometimes laborious account of what might have happened to the novelist Agatha Christie when she disappeared from her home for 11 days in 1926. Vanessa Redgrave is always worth watching as a long and gawky version of the famous author, but Dustin Hoffman is entirely miscast as the American journalist who tracks her down to the Harrogate hotel where, aware of her husband's affair with his secretary, she appears to be plotting something nefarious involving the girl in question. The period atmosphere is carefully and seemingly expensively captured.


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