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National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue

National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue

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2024

180 minutes (3 hrs 00 mins)

Production Studio

National Theatre

Director and Cast Quickview

Directed by

Sam Mendes · Zoe Ford

Starring

Tuppence Middleton · Mark Gatiss · Johnny Flynn · Luke Norris · Allan Corduner · Aysha Kala

Full cast & crew

Release dates

US release date

US release: 21st March 2024

United Kingdom release date

United Kingdom release: 21st March 2024

Ireland release date

Ireland release: 21st March 2024

Box Office Quickview

UK box office

Debut box office: 22nd Mar '24
Debut position: 8
Highest position: 8
Debut gross: £158 Thousand
Total chart weeks: 11

Chart position history

UK box office

22 Mar, 2024
8

US box office

Global box office

Certificates

16

NC16

Total grosses

UK total gross
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£1.1 Million

US total gross
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$0

Global total gross
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$0

25thframe.co.uk stats

Total views:
12

First viewed:
22nd Oct 2025

Last viewed:
17th Nov 2025

News from around the web

‘The Motive and the Cue,’ from National Theatre Live, comes to the Orcas Center screen on March 14 Islands' Sounder Sat, 8th March 2025

You needed to be there: a (p)review of NT Live’s The Motive and the Cue as Gielgud and Burton clash in 1964 Seen and Heard International Sat, 16th March 2024

The Motive and the Cue WJCT Public Media Thu, 13th March 2025

★★★ 1/2 Dr Strangelove (National Theatre Live) Limelight magazine Thu, 24th April 2025

The Motive and the Cue review – Gielgud and Burton battle it out The Guardian Wed, 3rd May 2023

National Theatre Live to screen The Motive and the Cue and Nye West End Theatre Mon, 15th January 2024