A Mid-Century Modern glass house near Boston that plays a cameo role in the sharply funny 2019 murder-mystery movie “Knives Out” is on the market for $1.4 million.

The home, which has had only five owners in its 65-year history and has not been on the market for nearly a quarter century, was listed on March 31 by John Tse and Bill Janovitz of Compass.

Kathleen Harris and Terry J. Warzecha bought the home in the exclusive Brown’s Wood section of Lincoln, Massachusetts, in 1996 for $480,000, according to property records.

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The couple, who are from the Midwest, are moving to Wisconsin now that their children are in college. They plan to build a new house on property they own.

“We moved to Lincoln for jobs in investment banking,” Ms. Harris said. “We had been living in a Prairie-style home in the Chicago area that had been designed by a contemporary of Frank Lloyd Wright’s.” She said they wanted a home in Massachusetts like it.

She said they fell in love with the two-story Lincoln house, which was designed by architect Walter Pierce in 1955, because “it was different and more open than the traditional capes and colonials in the area that we were being shown.”

The 3,190-square-foot house, which has three bedrooms and two bathrooms, is sited on more than an acre of woodlands.

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“We met the architect, and he said his idea was to create a cube in the woods,” Ms. Harris said. “In the 1960s, a previous owner added a basement, a dining room and a wing with two bedrooms and a bathroom, so the house is now Z-shaped.”

Ms. Harris, who is 58, and Mr. Warzecha, who is 59, added an oversized one-car detached garage to the property to replace a shed, and they repurposed the original format of the house, moving the living room downstairs next to the kitchen, which they recently renovated.

The house features walls of windows that, Ms. Harris said, “bring the outdoors in—it’s like living in the woods. There’s no wasted space—it was designed to take advantage of the site and the sun.”

Mr. Janovitz added that the design, which features sections of exposed brick, is an example of “function following form—you can see the construction.”

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Located at the top of a cul-de-sac, the house is one of only 23 homes from the 1950s in Brown’s Wood, a Modernist enclave that Mr. Janovitz said “is really cool because each residence was designed by different architects.”

He said the other architects, in addition to Pierce, included Henry Hoover, Carl Koch, Earl Flansburgh, Arthur H. Brooks, Stanley Myers and Ann and Ranny Gras.

He added that the property, which he said is “meticulously maintained and landscaped,” comes with a membership share in Valley Pond, which is open for swimming and non-motor boating.

In “Knives Out,” the Brown’s Wood house is where Chris Evans’s character, Ransom Drysdale, plots his deadly daddy-directed deeds that culminate in a pointedly funny conclusion delivered at knifepoint.

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Pierce, who made his name designing post World-War II suburban homes like the Brown’s Wood one for sale, planned and developed the 42-acre pioneering Peacock Farm subdivision in Lexington, Massachusetts, that was named for its original avian residents. Its 52 split-level homes, which were built between 1952 and 1958, sold for $20,000 each in keeping with Pierce’s goal of designing residences that were affordable as well as aesthetically pleasing.

Pierce lived in the Peacock Farm subdivision for 55 years; it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012, a year before his death.

Lincoln, which is about a 20-minute drive from Boston, “is a magically bucolic town,” Mr. Janovitz said. “It’s the kind of town where people ride their bikes for leaf-peeping trips. It feels like Vermont.”

Curbed Boston first reported the listing.