Sherlock Holmes

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Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock Holmes and Jude Law as Dr. John Watson lie on the floor of an industrial warehouse, looking alarmed, in a scene from the 2009 film Sherlock Holmes.

Sherlock Holmes

film by Ritchie [2009]

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Watson in Sherlock Holmes (2009) and its sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), with Robert Downey, Jr., as Holmes.
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Watson in Sherlock Holmes (2009) and its sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), with Robert Downey, Jr., as Holmes.
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She also featured in Sherlock Holmes (2009) and its sequel (2011) as Irene Adler, a loosely interpreted version of one of the few love interests to cross Holmes’s path in the detective series by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle upon which the films were based.
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She also featured in Sherlock Holmes (2009) and its sequel (2011) as Irene Adler, a loosely interpreted version of one of the few love interests to cross Holmes’s path in the detective series by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle upon which the films were based.
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