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There are eleventy thousand projects about Agatha Christie's missing days so now can I get a film about how at 40 she took up with a 26-year-old archaeologist, swam with him in her pink undies, and married him?
If you're not familiar with the story, after her divorce from husband #1, a jerkface who basically couldn't stand being around all the sad because Agatha was grieving her mother's death, Agatha traveled to Iraq to visit the Woolleys, archaeologist pals.+
Max Mallowan was one of their young staff members. The Woolleys sent Agatha out for a tour of the area with Max as a guide. They had ADVENTURES. (Swam half-naked, slept in a jail. As you do.)+
Then, when all of them were in Athens, Agatha learns that her beloved only child is basically at death's door in England. Cue frantic mother, rushing to make arrangements. She's so addled she sprains her ankle BADLY.+
Max is all, "No worries. I GOT YOU. Here are all your tickets and BTW I'm coming with you because you're hobbling and I am Just That Guy."+
On the train there are mishaps and he ends up saving the day A Lot. After Agatha gets home to find her daughter recuperating (Yay!) Max comes for a visit. Meets the daughter, the dog, the companion.+
One night, he taps on Agatha bedroom door and says, "Oh, hey. We should totally get married." Agatha is GOBSMACKED. This is just awesome pal Max. She protests he's too young. He doesn't care. He wants HER. She asks daughter, dog, and companion.+
Everybody says, "PUT A RING ON THAT BOY." So she did. And for years they traveled out to Iraq each year for him to dig while she sat under a parasol, writing.
Max was knighted, Agatha made a dame--each had their own knightly honors. THE END.
So, I'm BEGGING you, stop giving us sad, shitcanned, cheated on Agatha, and give us adventuresome, seizing-life-by-the-throat Agatha. We deserve her.
Did y'all need to know that Agatha learned to surf in 1922 in Waikiki? Yeah. You did. 
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