Sleuth (2007 film) Sleuth (2007 film) Sleuth is a 2007 British-American thriller film directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring Jude Law and Michael Caine. The screenplay by Harold Pinter is an adaptation of Anthony Shaffer's Tony Award-winning play "Sleuth". Caine had previously starred in a 1972 version, where he played Law's role against Laurence Olivier. At his country estate, a writer matches wits with an actor who has stolen his wife's heart involving mind games and tricks. The film's screenwriter, Harold Pinter, credited as "Man on TV", is seen on a television in the background interviewing another man, played by an uncredited Kenneth
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