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Sherlock Holmes Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Crime Will Pay

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Sherlock Holmes

Release Date: Friday, December 25, 2009 Theaters

Director: Guy Ritchie

Starring: Robert Downey Jr. Mark Strong Jude Law Rachel McAdams Kelly Reilly

PG-13 Action 2 hrs, 14 m

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Plot
In a dynamic new portrayal of Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous characters, "Sherlock Holmes" sends Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson on their latest challenge. Revealing fighting skills as lethal as his legendary intellect, Holmes will battle as never before to bring down a new nemesis and unravel a deadly plot that could destroy the country.
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Top Cast

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The film's director Guy Ritchie last directed The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare and Guy Ritchie's The Covenant. The film's writer Anthony Peckham last wrote Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit and The Book of Eli.

Director
Guy Ritchie
Producers
Dan Lin
Lionel Wigram

Production Details

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  • Based on Lionel Wigram's comicbook. Neil Marshall was originally attached to direct.

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Parent Rating
PG-13 Parents Strongly Cautioned for intense sequences of violence and action, some startling images and a scene of suggestive material
Runtime
2 hrs, 14 m
Tagline
Crime Will Pay
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Language
English

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Sherlock Holmes was released in nationwide movie theaters on Friday, December 25, 2009. There were 3 other movies released on the same date, including Nine, It's Complicated and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.

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