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Plot summary
Lord Charlie Mortdecai, who deals in art and cheats for a living, is cornered in Hong Kong by the gangster Fang, one of the people he has fleeced, and his manservant Jock pulls him clear. Back in London, he and his wife Johanna weigh how to settle a tax bill they cannot pay. A Goya is then taken from Oxford in a theft that leaves an art restorer dead. Inspector Alistair Martland, in love with Johanna since their college days, asks Mortdecai's help and offers him a tenth of the insurance payout. Emil Strago is his chief suspect. Word reaches Mortdecai that the canvas marks where a hoard of Nazi gold lies.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Mortdecai (2015)
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- Lionsgate pulled Johnny Depp's comedy out of 2,395 cinemas in its third week, a drop of 90.4 per cent that ranked as the tenth biggest theater loss in box-office history at the time.
- The Goya that everyone in the story is chasing is not a copy of a famous masterpiece but a modern pastiche of the 1805 Portrait of the Marchioness of Santa Cruz, which hangs in the Prado in Madrid.
