A Talent for Murder (1984)
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Directors
Alvin Rakoff
Cast
Angela Lansbury, Laurence Olivier
The story
Anne Royce McClain is a successful murder mystery writer living on her New York estate, in a mansion full of priceless artwork (some of it by former lovers) and a collection of her own first editions and manuscripts. She shares the house with her diminished capacity, childlike granddaughter Pamela (injured in the accident which killed her parents), and Rashi, her Rajasthani factotum... who is also an electronics wizard on parole from the penitentiary.
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comedy drama
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