Based on the Hasbro board game, CLUE attempts to explain how six unrelated, eccentric characters manage to become murder suspects while staying under one roof. The story is propelled and narrated by a character not found in the board game--the butler (
Tim Curry), who runs the show at a dinner to which the familiar characters of Miss Scarlet (Leslie Ann Warren), Colonel Mustard (
Martin Mull), Mrs. Peacock (Eileen Brennan), Professor Plum (
Christopher Lloyd), Mrs. White (
Madeline Kahn) and Mr. Green (
Michael McKean) have been invited. The guests find out they have all been being blackmailed by the same man, Mr. Boddy (Lee Ving), who joins the party halfway through dinner. After Mr. Boddy's inevitable death, the murders compound as the group stumbles upon several more bodies, including those of the maid and the cook.