Film

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid 1982

Directed by Carl Reiner

  • Comedy, Mystery, Crime
  • 89 min
  • PG

Laugh, or I’ll blow your lips off...

Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye Rigby Reardon. He finds a slip of paper containing a list of people who are 'The Friends and Enemies of Carlotta'.

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Nostalgic, comic, ironic and cool.

  • contemporarynostalgic
  • gravecomic
  • earnestironic
  • cooloverwhelming
  • unpretentiousprestige

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