The last person to see him alive was the woman hired to care for him, a nurse named Marta (Ana de Armas), a Latina immigrant whose family depends on her job. Then, on the morning after his 85th birthday, he’s found dead, apparently by his own hand. The picture is a delight, but even if it offers some nostalgic pleasures, it’s also attuned to all the worries and, worse, the thoughtlessness that characterize the modern world.Ĭrabby but sensible old codger Harlan Thrombey ( Christopher Plummer) has amassed a fortune from his career as a prolific writer of mysteries.
But Johnson has taken the essential formula and made it his own.
That’s the basic plot of Knives Out, approximately as modern as the novels that Agatha Christie began writing roughly 100 years ago and continued to produce almost until her death, in 1976.
