Jessica Fletcher (Dame Angela Lansbury) puts her sleuthing skills to work at a writers' conference after Russian author Yuri Malenkovich (Duncan Regehr) is found murdered.Jessica Fletcher (Dame Angela Lansbury) puts her sleuthing skills to work at a writers' conference after Russian author Yuri Malenkovich (Duncan Regehr) is found murdered.Jessica Fletcher (Dame Angela Lansbury) puts her sleuthing skills to work at a writers' conference after Russian author Yuri Malenkovich (Duncan Regehr) is found murdered.
- John Mendoza
- (as Santiago Douglas)
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- (as Eva Frajk)
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- TriviaThe Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, located in Hollywood across from the original Grauman Chinese Theatre, was this movie's hotel lobby interiors. The hotel check-in desk was positioned in the West side of the lobby, opposite the Hotel's actual main desk check-in. Primarily to provide little interruption, unnecessary actual hotel guest activity during the filming process. Set Decorator Donald J. Remacle switched and added furniture, tables, lamps and plants to the existing lobby. The hotel rooms and corridors were built on-stage at Universal Studios.
- GoofsWhile Jessica is reading Yuri's manuscript, Warren knocks on her door and the pages in the book indicate that she is almost finished reading it. But when the camera changes to look over her shoulder, the pages in the book show that she is now back near the beginning.
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[in the conference room]
Woman: Excuse me, Mrs. Fletcher. I don't understand how you could do it. I mean, you said yourself, he was your friend. The guy he murdered was probably a killer several times over, a lot worse than your friend. So why do it?
Jessica Fletcher: Yes. Well, uh, it was, it- it- it was the hardest thing that I-I've ever done. But popular culture not withstanding, there *is* such a thing as right and wrong. The taking of a human life for any reason is wrong. I mean, you can never nudge the moral compass far from its true north without losing something vital. A compass is essential for everyone, writers in particular. Yuri Malenkovich asked why I investigate murders. He said that I had to have a personal agenda. Well, he was quite right. It's important to me to pursue those who cross the line and take another human life. In my investigating murders, I have seen some terrible things. So many of them that it would take the wind out of anybody's sails.
- ConnectionsFollowed by Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man (2001)
This movie possesses the same charm, sleuth tactics and plot twists and turns of the TV series, and is filled with much intriguing plot points and daring investigation scenes that puts Jessica collaborating with the sometimes oblivious local investigators and FBI agents to solve the case (it would have been better to have the detectives and FBI prove to be a little more resourceful and credible than relying on Jessica so much). I especially enjoyed how each of the authors has a background story and each one is considered a suspect, like a Clue-style case.
The direction and pacing are pretty good and, although much of the movie is all-talk and less action, the quality of the acting, the aspects of the drama and script, and the unpredictability of the plot made the movie nonetheless captivating. I also especially enjoyed some of Lansbury's eloquent and meaningful dialog she delivered throughout the movie.
With all the finger-pointing and perplexed situations, you would be eager to find the truth of the matter and who is behind the all the murder. It is a good TV movie that continues the nice throwback to the heyday of the TV series.
Grade B+
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- Oct 19, 2014
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