Sherlock: A Study in Pink

United Kingdom

2010

88 Min

Color

1.78:1

English

Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
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EXEC Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss, Beryl Vertue, Bethan Jones, Rebecca Eaton

PROD Sue Vertue, Kathy Nettleship

SCR Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss, Arthur Conan Doyle

CAST Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Rupert Graves, Una Stubbs, Louise Brealey, Vinette Robinson, Jonathan Aris, Philip Davis, Mark Gatiss, Lisa McAllister

MUSIC David Arnold, Michael Price

A war hero, invalided home from Afghanistan, meets a strange but charismatic genius who is looking for a flatmate; it is London, 2010, and Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes are meeting for the first time. A string of impossible suicides has Scotland Yard baffled – and only one man can help. —IMDb

Director

Paul McGuigan

A native of Scotland, Paul McGuigan was a successful photographer in Glasgow before branching out into television commercials and documentary films, including Football, Faith and Flutes, about religion and soccer in Glasgow; and Playing Nintendo With God, about children with AIDS. In 1998 he won the Best Newcomer Award from the Royal Television Society for his short film, The Granton Star Cause. He expanded this into a trilogy based on stories by Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh and released it as his first feature length film, The Acid House (1998). The movie won the FIPRESCI Prize at the Stockholm Film Festival, the AMC Audience Award and the Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Silver at Fantasporto and was named Best Film at the New York Underground Film Festival.

McGuigan next directed the controversial Gangster No. 1 (2000) starring Malcolm McDowell and Paul Bettany—which both dazzled and disturbed audiences with its darkly violent tale of a criminal in London. McGuigan’s… read more

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Satori Setiawan

25May12

a nice intro for the new Sherlock Holmes. God bless Cumberbatch ~

longstreth

21May12

I caught this last month. It's basically the same as the original Arthur Conan Doyle story (but with cell phones) and didn't bring much new to the table. It features a groan-inducing final 20 minutes that practically guarantee I'll be staying away from Sherlock in the future.

longstreth

21May12

I do kinda like Martin Freeman though.

Zachary George Najarian-Najafi

13Mar12

What I love most is the kinetic energy brought to this adaptation. Cumberbatch holds a magnetic presence on screen, and I never tired of his character. The duo of Watson and Holmes is one of the greatest in all fiction, and Moffatt and the two leads do a great job of bringing the dynamic and chemistry to life. What worked the best was how believable the characters were. They felt fresh and real, not caricatures.