Top billed cast

1. 

   John Cusack

   Edgar Allan Poe

2. 

   Luke Evans

   Detective Fields

3. 

   Alice Eve

   Emily Hamilton

4. 

   Brendan Gleeson

   Colonel Hamilton

5. 

   Kevin McNally

   Maddux

6. 

   Oliver Jackson-Cohen

   John Cantrell

7. 

   Jimmy Yuill

   Captain Eldridge

8. 

   Pam Ferris

   Mrs. Bradley

9. 

   Brendan Coyle

   Reagan

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Reviews

A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on 2014-03-14

Elementary my dear Edgar.

The Raven is directed by James McTeigue and written by Ben Livingston and Hannah Shakespeare. It stars John Cusack, Luke Evans, Alice Eve and Brendan Gleeson. Music is by Lucas Vidal and cinematography by Danny Ruhlmann.

"On October 7, 1849, Edgar Allan Poe was found, near death, on a park bench in Baltimore, Maryland. The last days of his life remain a mystery"

It's a real smart idea that the makers have here, putting their own theory forward on what happened in the lead up to Poe's death. Essentially a period whodunit procedural as Poe (Cusack) and Inspecto...read the rest

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1. Point of No Return62%
2. The Ritual Killer58%
3. The Big Sleep75%
4. Night of the Hunted60%
5. Cleaner60%
6. Mindcage59%
7. Righteous Kill58%
8. Scream VI69%
9. The Prowler58%
10. Veronica Guerin66%
11. Fallen68%
12. John Doe: Vigilante64%
13. Solace64%
14. Nightcrawler77%
15. The Parallax View68%
16. A Walk Among the Tombstones63%
17. Crescent City61%
18. The Infernal Machine62%
19. The Devil's Own62%
20. The Killer65%

Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$26,000,000.00

Revenue
$29,657,751.00

Keywords

• poison
• blackmail
• masked ball
• baltimore, usa
• buried alive
• historical figure
• serial killer
• deadline
• newspaper review
• newspaper office
• hard times
• life imitates art
• pendulum