Appointment with Death

(1988)

★ 6.1 IMDb · 193 votes

Genres: Thriller, Crime, Mystery, Drama

Year: 1988

Runtime: 108 мин

Country: Israel, United Kingdom

Director: Майкл Уиннер

Cast: Питер Устинов, Лорен Бэколл, Кэрри Фишер, Джон Гилгуд, Пайпер Лори, Хейли Миллз, Дженни Сигроув, Дэвид Соул, Николас Гвест, Валери Ричардс

Plot

Emily Boynton, the stepmother to three children, blackmails the family lawyer into destroying a second will of her late husband that would have freed the children from her dominating influence. She takes herself, the children, and her daughter-in-law on holiday to Europe and the Holy Land. At a dig, Emily is found dead and Hercule Poirot investigates.

Emily Boynton (Piper Laurie), stepmother to the three Boynton children, and mother to Ginevra (Amber Bezer), blackmails the family lawyer, Jefferson Cope (David Soul), into destroying the second will of her late husband, which would have freed the childern from her dominating influence. She takes herself and the children on vacation to Europe and the Holy Land. In Jerusalem, Hercule Poirot (Sir Peter Ustinov) meets up with a woman friend, Dr. Sarah King (Jenny Seagrove), who falls in love with Raymond Boynton (John Terleskey) to Emily's disapproval. Lady Westholme (Lauren Bacall), her secretary, and Cope are following them too. The children learn about the second will, and Emily succeeds in rubbing the rest the wrong way, causing much hatred towards her. At a dig, everybody wonders about the camp, and Emily is found dead, poisoned. Poirot investigates.