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'Out Of Blue': Stardust And (Hollywood) Star-Power Fuel This Genre-Bending Whodunit

This introspective (and occasionally downright lethargic) existential whodunit starring Patricia Clarkson and a cast of ringers is based on the Martin Amis novel Night Train.
Patricia Clarkson stars in <em>Out Of Blue, </em>a genre-bending detective flick. The movie is based on the Marin Amis novel <em>Night Train. </em>

How do you feel when you're watching a detective story and the murder is definitively solved at the halfway point? Cheated ... or intrigued?

That's a good litmus test for how you'll respond to , a lush, unhurried new mystery thriller from writer-director Carol Morley. Loosely based on the Martin Amis novel , the film is an existential whodunit that's less concerned with

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