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The Thursday Murder Club (2025)

The Thursday Murder Club poster
Directed by
Chris Columbus
Genre
comedy film, crime film, mystery film, thriller film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 58m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 1,055 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of older friends who meet in a retirement village to solve cold cases take on a real murder when someone dies nearby. They use their life experience and wits to find the culprit before the police do.

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What happens

The Thursday Murder Club is a 2025 American crime comedy film directed by Chris Columbus from a screenplay by Katy Brand and Suzanne Heathcote, based on the 2020 novel by Richard Osman. The film stars Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley, and Celia Imrie with David Tennant, Jonathan Pryce, Naomi Ackie, Daniel Mays, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Richard E. Grant, Tom Ellis, Geoff Bell, Paul Freeman, and Ingrid Oliver in supporting roles. Its plot follows a group of elderly amateur sleuths who attempt to solve a murder. The Thursday Murder Club premiered in Leicester Square in London on August 21, 2025. The film was released in select theaters in the United Kingdom on August 22, ahead of its streaming debut on Netflix on August 28. It received generally positive reviews from critics. Its soundtrack was released by Netflix Music. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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