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‘Crooked House’ murder mystery to open at Cinema Art Theater Jan. 19

January 17, 2018

The Rehoboth Beach Film Society's Cinema Art Theater will present "Crooked House," a thrilling murder-mystery adapted from a novel by Agatha Christie.

The suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of a wealthy patriarch are investigated by spy-turned-private-detective Charles Hayward (Max Irons), who is lured by his former lover to catch her grandfather's murderer before Scotland Yard exposes dark family secrets. On the sprawling estate, amidst a poisonous atmosphere of bitterness, resentment and jealousy, Hayward encounters three generations of the dynasty, including a theater actress (Gillian Anderson), the old man's widow 50 years his junior (Christina Hendricks) and the family matriarch Lady Edith de Haviland (Glenn Close). "Crooked House" ups the tension to the breaking point before an ending that Christie considered her favorite of all her works.

Screening times are 4 and 7 p.m., Friday, Jan. 19; 4:30 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 20; 3 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 21; 4:30 p.m., Monday, Jan. 22; 4 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 24; and 4 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 25. Tickets can be purchased at the Cinema Art Theater starting 30 minutes prior to each screening. Admission for a screening is $8 for film society members and $10 for nonmembers. All screenings are held at the Cinema Art Theater at 17701 Dartmouth Drive in Dartmouth Plaza behind the Lewes Wawa.

For more information, go to www.rehobothfilm.com or call 302-645-9095.

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