The film opens as Agatha Christie gets a silver cup engraved for her husband Archie, who receives the gift with utter disdain. The couple walk to a publicity event for Agatha's new novel, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. They are ta… See more

• Vanessa Redgrave as Agatha Christie
• Dustin Hoffman as Wally Stanton
• Timothy Dalton as Archie Christie
• Helen Morse as Evelyn Crawley… See more

Kathleen Tynan began researching the project as a BBC documentary. During her research, she told producer David Puttnam about it, and he suggested it be turned into a feature film. The Agatha Christie estate opposed th… See more

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 71% based on 14 reviews, with an average rating of 6.5/10.
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four, and told reader… See more