Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking

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Plot: Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking is an excellent Sherlockian pastiche, i.e., part of a genre of original works featuring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most beloved character, but ta...( read more  )king various liberties Doyle most likely would not have embraced. Rupert Everett gives a wholly original performance as Holmes--not an easy thing to do in the shadow of Jeremy Brett's definitive portrayal on Britain's Granada Television in the 1980s. Both Everett and the story capture Holmes during his most dissolute period, hooked on opiates, refusing to eat, and more often than not without the company of his friend, Dr. Watson (Ian Hart, essaying the character a second time), who had left Baker Street to pursue a private practice and marry his second wife. This is Holmes deep in the career crisis eventually resolved by his duel with Moriarty in Doyle's canon, but in The Case of the Silk Stocking the Great Detective is vexed by a murderer preying upon the daughters of London aristocrats. Elements of the killer's sexual fetishism make this a particularly grim tale that the discreet Watson would most certainly not have chronicled. The dark but imaginative tale is lightened a bit by the presence of Watson's fiancee (Helen McCrory), an American psychiatrist as aghast as she is impressed by Holmes' lack of emotional attachment to his work. --Tom Keogh

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  MCT:

  February 25, 2008

  I thought for a minute that this would be good, but then I got my hands on it and realized that it is a bad BBC film. It's out.

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  January 6, 2008

  I'm definitely not a Holmes expert so I can't say anything about the loyalty to the literary pieces but I really liked Everett's portrayal. The whole movie was just so deliciously dark that I had to like it.

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  July 14, 2007

  simply because sherlock is rupert's quintessential role. and you gotta love the dirty drug use. yum.

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  April 15, 2007

  Strange. Very strange indeed. It's a bit disturbing in some ways (I do not like watching girls get kidnapped and have some perverted guy with a silk stocking behind it all... argh). But it was interesting. It's really dark and seems to put a lot of emphasis on the negative things about Holmes (coughcough opium cough). It was still pretty interesting though.

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  May 9, 2006

  I've only seen it once and that was when it was first on TV about 2 or 3 years ago. It was okay, but Rupert Everett didn't seem right in the role...

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  Eleanor David
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  Helen McCrory
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  Ian Hart
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  Jonathan Hyde
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  Rupert Everett

• Rated: (Unrated)
• Directed by: Simon Cellan Jones
• Genres: Mystery & Suspense
• Released: December 31, 2004
• DVD Released: October 25, 2005

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