Maggie Moore[s] Review – Compelling Murder Mystery

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Category: Film

Published on Saturday, 10 June 2023 14:24

Written by Janet Walker

Maggie Moore[s], from Screen Media, presents an unpredictable murder mystery, as one bad choice creates a domino effect and snowballs into an insidious rash of violence, the local sheriff, and his deputy work to find the killer.

Maggie Moore[s] bursts onto the screen with a woman, running, in fear of her life, and while escaping she ends up being cornered, so to escape a madman she jumps off a balcony. The next scene we see the local Sheriff Jordan Sanders, played by Jon Hamm, and his partner, Deputy Reddy, played by Nick Mohammed. In a few short seconds they each bounce a few ideas of how this woman was killed.

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Then he is shown the ID, Maggie Moore. We understand from everyone's shock, that this is the second woman named Maggie Moore killed in two weeks. This cold opening sets up the premise for the film and we now return to the beginning of two weeks of mayhem and murder in this small southwestern town.

We met Jay Moore, played by Micah Stock, the owner of Castle Subs, who is receiving a black-market delivery of molded and spoiled meats and cheeses, from Tommy T, a local criminal, played by Derek Basco. When he goes to pay, the envelope is missing from his briefcase, he rushes home to find that his wife, Maggie, had opened the envelope and was in tears. We understand Tommy T. is a pedophile and the payment for purchasing rancid products, to help Jay save money, is the photographs.

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As with most neighborhoods, there is always a nosy neighbor, and on this idyllic cul-de-sac, it is recently divorced Rita, played by Tina Fey. She overhears the argument and moves a little closer to the door to eavesdrop.

Maggie's discovery of the photos, as their marriage was already on the edge, is all she needs, and she contacts the lawyer and refuses to give back the photos. Jay is in over his head, so he decides to use Tommy T's suggestion and hire muscle. He hires a deaf hit man, Kosco, played by Happy Anderson, who is only supposed to scare her into not going to the police.

Kosco, we understand, doesn't like leaving witnesses and once again Jay's poor choices and bad decisions lead to the horrific murder of his wife. As the walls close in on him, he continues to believe there is still the possibility that he can spin his way out of this very bottomless abyss he has dug for himself.

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As the Sheriff Jordan and Deputy Reddy work to pull back the layers on the crime wave that has hit their little desert town, even when it appears the cases are closed, unanswered questions continue to pester the sheriff. A few more visits to former suspects, and a little bit of luck, and suddenly the elements converge to bring an explosive ending that is jarring, intense and palpable.

Maggie Moore[s] mixes the intrigue of a whodunit with a sympathetic sheriff and affable deputy, folds in bits of comedy, adds the contemporary mores of dating and romance, which all add up to an entertaining, unusual comedic drama.

The characters, a quirky group of suburbanites, are very well written some with erratic behaviors others more relatable and yet all are hiding secrets, some recovering from heartache, suffering from trust issues, money problems, and other darker criminal secrets that rise the bile overflowing and infecting everyone as the web of deceit.

Maggie Moore[s], a compelling race against time comedic drama thriller, opens in theaters and On Demand, June 16, 2023. See it!

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Country: U.S.

Language: English.

Runtime: 99minutes.

Director: John Slattery.

Producer: John Slattery, Vincent Garcia Newman, Dan Reardon, Santosh Govindaraju, Nancy Leopardi, Ross Kohn.

Writer: Paul Bernbaum.

Cast: Jon Hamm, Tina Fey, Micah Stock, Nick Mohammed, Happy Anderson, Mary Holland, Oona Roche, Tate Ellington, Kristen K. Berg, Peter Diseth.