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Kind Hearts and Coronets
Comedy, Crime
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family member who stands between himself and the family fortune. But when he finds himself torn between his longtime love and the widow of one of his victims, his plans go awry.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy dry, impeccably mannered black comedy where social climbing and murder are treated with elegant understatement.
- Tone
- darkly comic, satirical, playful
- Payoff
- amusement, vindication
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- class resentment, inheritance, social hypocrisy, revenge, romantic entanglement
- Setting
- early twentieth-century England, aristocratic country estates and urban interiors
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