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Thirteen at Dinner

Thirteen at Dinner

1985
Suspense/Thriller, Crime
TV Movie
1h 27m
Hercule Poirot appears on a TV talk show with actor Bryan Martin who is making an action/detective movie with Jane Wilkinson. He also meets impressionist Carlotta Adams. They all go to a party and Jane asks him and Captain Hastings to go and meet her husband, Lord Edgware in regards to a divorce. They do so, to discover that the Lord had already granted her a divorce. Jane is delighted but drops hints that she could have killed the Lord if he didn't grant her the divorce... (imdb)
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Directed by:

Lou Antonio
Lou-Antonio
31 total credits
Credits include: Cool Hand Luke, America, America, Hawaii, Thirteen at Dinner and American Gothic
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Writers:

Agatha Christie
Agatha-Christie
84 total credits
Credits include: Witness for the Prosecution, Murder on the Orient Express, Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile and A Haunting in Venice
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Rod Browning
Rod-Browning
5 total credits
Credits include: Oh Heavenly Dog, Thirteen at Dinner, Cruel and Unusual, Quarterback Princess and Pittsville - Ein Safe voll Blut
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Starring:

Faye Dunaway
Faye-Dunaway
85 total credits
Faye Dunaway won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Network (1976) after receiving previous nominations for the critically acclaimed films Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and Chinatown (1974). She has starred in a variety of films, including The Thomas Crown Affair (both the 1968 and 1999 versions), The Towering Inferno (1974), Three Days of the Condor (1975), and Mommie Dearest (1981)...(Wikipedia)
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Bill Nighy
Bill-Nighy
105 total credits
William Francis "Bill" Nighy is an English actor and comedian. He worked in theatre and television before his first cinema role in 1981, and made his name in television with The Men's Room in 1991, in which he played the womanizer Prof. Mark Carleton, whose extra-marital affairs kept him "vital". He became known around the world in 2003 as Billy Mack, the aging pop star in Love Actually...(wikipedia)
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Peter Ustinov
Peter-Ustinov
85 total credits
Peter Ustinov was two times Academy Award-winning film actor, director, writer, journalist, and raconteur. He wrote and directed many acclaimed stage plays and led numerous international theatrical productions.He was born Peter Alexander Freiherr von Ustinov on April 16, 1921, in Swiss Cottage, London, England. Ustinov was of Russian, German, French, Italian and Ethiopian descent, with ancestral connections to Russian nobility as well as the Ethiopian Royal Family. His grandmother, Magdalena
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David Suchet
David-Suchet
48 total credits
Credits include: The Bank Job, A Perfect Murder, Harry and the Hendersons, Executive Decision and Wing Commander
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John Stride
John-Stride
7 total credits
Credits include: The Omen, Macbeth, Thirteen at Dinner, The Ice House and Henry VIII
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Benedict Taylor
Benedict-Taylor
12 total credits
Credits include: Sex Education, The Watcher in the Woods, Thirteen at Dinner, Sharpe's Regiment and Every Time We Say Goodbye
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Amanda Pays
Amanda-Pays
19 total credits
Credits include: Leviathan, Max Headroom, Oxford Blues, Pilot and Thirteen at Dinner
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Lee Horsley
Lee-Horsley
16 total credits
Credits include: The Sword and the Sorcerer, Thirteen at Dinner, Nightmare Man, Showdown at Area 51 and The Face of Fear
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Allan Cuthbertson
Allan-Cuthbertson
20 total credits
Credits include: Performance, Room at the Top, Tunes of Glory, The Man Who Never Was and Thirteen at Dinner
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Diane Keen
Diane-Keen
7 total credits
Credits include: Thirteen at Dinner, Jekyll & Hyde, Sweeney!, Silver Dream Racer and Doctors
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,
Jonathan Cecil
Jonathan-Cecil
7 total credits
Credits include: Thirteen at Dinner, Dead Man's Folly, Murder in Three Acts, The Taming of the Shrew and A Fine Romance
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,
John Barron
John-Barron
5 total credits
Credits include: Thirteen at Dinner, Bloodsuckers, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, The Turn of the Screw and Timeslip
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Franchise:

Hercule Poirot

Countries:

UK, USA

Language:

English

Thirteen at Dinner

1985
Suspense/Thriller, Crime
TV Movie
1h 27m
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Ratings & Reviews

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20 Jun 2022
62
58th
It was strange seeing David Suchet in this as a different character. I'm not really that big of a fan of Ustinov's Poirot and I find his Poirot too pompous and silly for my liking. Another strange thing about this adaptation was that it takes place in a modern setting.
19 Oct 2020
42
18th
Treze à mesa estreava há 35 anos nos EUA. Adoro o Poirot do Ustinov no cinema, mas esse filme pra TV é bem mais ou menos, a curiosidade fica por conta de eu nunca ter visto o Bill Nighy tão novinho e a presença de David Suchet como inspetor bobão antes dele ficar famoso ele mesmo como Poirot da série de TV. Box Obras-Primas Agatha Christie Volume 1.
28 Jun 2020
42
26th
Aggressively mediocre except where it's randomly weird, with a modern setting that only seems to have happened because they ran out of money for period props. Ustinov is fun as ever, of course, and David Suchet is a delight, even more so if you're familiar with his Poirot. But this fails to make the mystery coherent and fails to give us other reasons to care.
15 Jan 2017
41
5th
Not sure if real life Poirot would make sense of this mess.
26 Aug 2013
70
68th
One of the more cohesive of the Ustinov Poirot's sadly suffers from being one of the more predictable. In spite of that, there's a lot of good humor and it's nice to see Poirot working in England for once, and, as usual, against a bunch of nutty Americans.
25 Jan 2011
58
26th
Mediocre Agatha Christie book receives mediocre treatment. Peter Ustinov plays his typical interpretation of the Belgium detective (English style) and Faye Dunaway is, not surprisingly, annoying over the top. My only motivation for finishing it was the hope that maybe she'd fall down a flight of stairs and lapse into a coma.
09 Mar 2026
50
15th
19 Dec 2025
50
42nd
04 Oct 2025
50
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29 Dec 2024
65
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Cast & Info

Directed by:

Lou Antonio
Lou-Antonio
31 total credits
Credits include: Cool Hand Luke, America, America, Hawaii, Thirteen at Dinner and American Gothic
polygon

Writers:

Agatha Christie
Agatha-Christie
84 total credits
Credits include: Witness for the Prosecution, Murder on the Orient Express, Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile and A Haunting in Venice
polygon
,
Rod Browning
Rod-Browning
5 total credits
Credits include: Oh Heavenly Dog, Thirteen at Dinner, Cruel and Unusual, Quarterback Princess and Pittsville - Ein Safe voll Blut
polygon

Starring:

Faye Dunaway
Faye-Dunaway
85 total credits
Faye Dunaway won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Network (1976) after receiving previous nominations for the critically acclaimed films Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and Chinatown (1974). She has starred in a variety of films, including The Thomas Crown Affair (both the 1968 and 1999 versions), The Towering Inferno (1974), Three Days of the Condor (1975), and Mommie Dearest (1981)...(Wikipedia)
polygon
,
Bill Nighy
Bill-Nighy
105 total credits
William Francis "Bill" Nighy is an English actor and comedian. He worked in theatre and television before his first cinema role in 1981, and made his name in television with The Men's Room in 1991, in which he played the womanizer Prof. Mark Carleton, whose extra-marital affairs kept him "vital". He became known around the world in 2003 as Billy Mack, the aging pop star in Love Actually...(wikipedia)
polygon
,
Peter Ustinov
Peter-Ustinov
85 total credits
Peter Ustinov was two times Academy Award-winning film actor, director, writer, journalist, and raconteur. He wrote and directed many acclaimed stage plays and led numerous international theatrical productions.He was born Peter Alexander Freiherr von Ustinov on April 16, 1921, in Swiss Cottage, London, England. Ustinov was of Russian, German, French, Italian and Ethiopian descent, with ancestral connections to Russian nobility as well as the Ethiopian Royal Family. His grandmother, Magdalena
polygon
,
David Suchet
David-Suchet
48 total credits
Credits include: The Bank Job, A Perfect Murder, Harry and the Hendersons, Executive Decision and Wing Commander
polygon
,
John Stride
John-Stride
7 total credits
Credits include: The Omen, Macbeth, Thirteen at Dinner, The Ice House and Henry VIII
polygon
,
Benedict Taylor
Benedict-Taylor
12 total credits
Credits include: Sex Education, The Watcher in the Woods, Thirteen at Dinner, Sharpe's Regiment and Every Time We Say Goodbye
polygon
,
Amanda Pays
Amanda-Pays
19 total credits
Credits include: Leviathan, Max Headroom, Oxford Blues, Pilot and Thirteen at Dinner
polygon
,
Lee Horsley
Lee-Horsley
16 total credits
Credits include: The Sword and the Sorcerer, Thirteen at Dinner, Nightmare Man, Showdown at Area 51 and The Face of Fear
polygon
,
Allan Cuthbertson
Allan-Cuthbertson
20 total credits
Credits include: Performance, Room at the Top, Tunes of Glory, The Man Who Never Was and Thirteen at Dinner
polygon
,
Diane Keen
Diane-Keen
7 total credits
Credits include: Thirteen at Dinner, Jekyll & Hyde, Sweeney!, Silver Dream Racer and Doctors
polygon
,
Jonathan Cecil
Jonathan-Cecil
7 total credits
Credits include: Thirteen at Dinner, Dead Man's Folly, Murder in Three Acts, The Taming of the Shrew and A Fine Romance
polygon
,
John Barron
John-Barron
5 total credits
Credits include: Thirteen at Dinner, Bloodsuckers, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, The Turn of the Screw and Timeslip
polygon

Franchise:

Hercule Poirot

Countries:

UK, USA

Language:

English
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