Eleanor David, Helen McCrory, Ian Hart

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  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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Unrated, 90 min.

Directed by: Simon Cellan Jones

Release Date: December 31, 2004

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DVD Release Date: October 25, 2005

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  • July 18, 2009
    Really good movie with some up to date Watson and Holmes characters (well as up to date as you can get in the 18th century but you know what I mean.).
  • April 13, 2009
    Rupert Everett is a more real and flawed Sherlock Holmes than we've seen before.
  • March 31, 2009
    Kind of a strange take on Holmes' relationship with Watson.
  • December 29, 2008
    Enjoyable film but think I preferred previous Sherlock Holmes and Dr.Watson characters to the latest stars.
  • September 28, 2008
    very nice one, the original suspense of the Sherlock Holmes cases!
  • August 22, 2008
    might be good. I like mysteries.
  • 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.
  • February 15, 2008
    Liked it! I'm a Sherlock fan and I quite like Everett too so it's all good.

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