Communism: always a red herring.
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But the film does more than deliver laughs. Set in a New England estate in 1954, the film also tells a story about the late Cold War of the 1980s. Through its humor and satire, Clue became a pop culture mirror into Reagan-era American politics and culture, one that looked to—and even helped reevaluate—the memory of the 1950s to lay bare the era’s rising conservatism.
Let's re-evaluate it again in a time where Reagan could be a Democrat.