Mr. Holmes

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Directed by Bill Condon
Produced by Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, and Anne Carey

Screenplay by Jeffrey Hatcher Based on the novel A Slight Trick of the Mind by Mitch Cullin Based on characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle

With: Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Milo Parker, Hiroyuki Sanada, Hattie Morahan, Patrick Kennedy, Roger Allam, Philip Davis, Frances de la Tour, and John Sessions

Cinematography: Tobias A. Schliessler
Editing: Virginia Katz
Music: Carter Burwell

Runtime: 104 min
Release Date: 24 July 2015
Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1
Color: Color

Bill Condon and Jeffrey Hatcher’s imagining of a long-retired Sherlock Holmes (Ian McKellen) near the end of his life and hunted by his final case is an uneven meditation on aging and mortality, elivened by its solid cast (which included Nicholas Rowe, the Holmes of 1985’s Young Sherlock Holmes, reprising his role in a fashion).

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