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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery: Plot, Cast, Ending & Where to Watch

2022 · United States of America · Comedy, Crime, Mystery · 2h 20m · English

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is a 2022 United States of America comedy film directed by Rian Johnson. This guide covers the plot, full cast, an overview of the ending, where to watch, and similar films you might want next.

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Original Title
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Director
Rian Johnson
Writers
Rian Johnson
Country
United States of America
Runtime
2h 20m
Release
Nov 23, 2022
§ 01 Plot · 6 min read

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Plot Summary

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is a 2022 American mystery film written and directed by Rian Johnson, and produced by Johnson and Ram Bergman. It is a standalone sequel to the 2019 film Knives Out, and the second installment in the Knives Out film series. Glass Onion sees Daniel Craig return as master detective Benoit Blanc as he takes on a new case revolving around tech billionaire Miles Bron and his closest friends. The ensemble cast also includes Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline, Kate Hudson, and Dave Bautista.

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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) is a United States of America comedy film, directed by Rian Johnson, running 140 minutes. World-famous detective Benoit Blanc heads to Greece to peel back the layers of a mystery surrounding a tech billionaire and his eclectic crew of friends. Stars Daniel Craig and Edward Norton. Critical reception: IMDb 7.1/10, Rotten Tomatoes 91%, Metacritic 81/100. Tagline: "When the game ends, the mystery begins.." This guide covers the plot, full cast, ending, and where to watch.

§ 02 Cast · 6 roles

Cast and Characters

Daniel Craig headshot
Daniel Craig
as Benoit Blanc
Craig's second Blanc outing trusts the audience with the gag that the detective himself is bored. The film opens with him in a bathtub during lockdown, ennui-stricken; the Greek-island case is, for him, a way back into the kind of stupid mystery he can actually solve. The performance is built around small inversions of his Knives Out tics — softer drawl, longer silences, more visible irritation when a suspect mistakes complexity for intelligence.
Edward Norton headshot
as Miles Bron
Norton plays Bron as a man whose every gesture is engineered to look like genius without actually requiring any. The performance's tell is the speech pattern: Bron loses words, mangles syntax, and treats every malapropism as a sign of his own depth. Norton calibrates the character so the audience can both believe the friend group falls for it and watch Blanc, in the same room, deciding he has met a fool.
Janelle Monáe headshot
Janelle Monáe
as Andi Brand
Monáe carries the film's hardest acting job: two characters, one of whom is impersonating the other, with the audience meant to spend the first hour reading them as a single woman. The performance's argument is in the small recalibrations she makes once the timeline flips — the way Helen-as-Andi sits slightly differently at the dinner table, the way the grief shows up in the seams of the imitation she has been studying for a week.
Kathryn Hahn headshot
Kathryn Hahn
as Claire Debella
Hahn's Connecticut governor is the friend-group's professional politician, which the film treats as a character note rather than a backdrop. Claire is the one who has to keep the gathering's joke-tone going while privately calculating what Miles's funding means for her Senate run, and Hahn is precise about the moment her face stops being a campaign-event face — usually when the Klear conversation forces a number into a sentence she would rather have left a feeling.
Leslie Odom Jr. headshot
Leslie Odom Jr.
as Lionel Toussaint
Odom plays Lionel as the only friend in the room whose career still rests on being right. The script gives him the film's central moral spine — a scientist holding a Klear-fuel report he knows is a death sentence — and Odom lets the audience watch the cost of carrying it in his shoulders before the dialogue ever names it. His third-act decision turns on the fact that he has been telling himself, for years, that he can stay friends with Miles without endorsing him.
Kate Hudson headshot
Kate Hudson
as Birdie Jay
Hudson commits fully to a character whose comic register is also her tragic one — a fashion mogul whose every public crisis is, by her own design, framed as someone else's misunderstanding of her. The performance trusts Birdie to be entirely without inner life: the sweatshop is just the factory; the slur she tweeted was just a word; the assistant who keeps her phone is just being mean. The film is sharper for refusing to let her be sympathetic.
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Ending Overview

How does Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery end? Our spoiler-aware breakdown walks through the final act beat by beat — including the choices, motivations, and ambiguous final shot that viewers most often debate.

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What is Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery about?

World-famous detective Benoit Blanc heads to Greece to peel back the layers of a mystery surrounding a tech billionaire and his eclectic crew of friends.

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