Primarily set in 1947, Ian McKellen stars as Mr. Holmes, now in his 90s, retired from service in his country abode, with his once razor-sharp faculties beginning to fade as he has entered into old age. He's looked into rare plants ('prickly ash') from Japan to reverse the dementia process, as well as taking to bee keeping to harvest royal jelly that is rumored to do the same. With only his widowed housekeeper, Mrs. Murno, and her rambunctious young son Roger to keep him company, Holmes looks to garner enough of the memory he has left to finally write the true story of his final case, which had not only led to his retirement from his profession, but also into semi-reclusiveness. He seeks to counteract the account that had been highly embellished by his partner in crime-solving, Dr. Watson, who helped to make Sherlock Holmes a larger-than-life figure, with his pipe he never smoked (he prefers cigars) and deer-stalker hat he never wore, in the mind of the general public.
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