Category: 25
All Genres: Mystery
Release Year: 2005
Country: USA
Runtime: 120
Languages: English
Director: Mark Griffiths
Sound: Dolby Digital
Taglines:

When it comes to murder, she likes to read between the lines...

Writing by: Michael Sloan - (creator)
Joyce Burditt - (written by)

Produced by: Joyce Burditt - executive producer
Robert Halmi Jr. - executive producer
Lincoln Lageson - producer
Larry Levinson - executive producer
Nick Lombardo - co-executive producer
Michael Moran - co-executive producer
Randy Pope - producer
Amy Goldberg - co-executive producer (uncredited)

Cast: Kellie Martin - Samantha
Clarence Williams III - Philby
Nina Siemaszko - Cassie
Casey Sander - Chief Connors
Julianna McCarthy - Dorothy
Deborah Van Valkenburgh - Beth
Paul Satterfield - Grant
Beth Broderick - Clare
Michael Chieffo - Dan the Florist
Linda Larson - Woman #1
Sally Wells Cook - Woman #2

Music: Joe Kraemer
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Plot Outline: She's an avid mystery lover and bookseller, for whom crime has been comfortably confined to the pages...
Plot: She's an avid mystery lover and bookseller, for whom crime has been comfortably confined to the pages of her favorite novels-until a real-life murder turns a weekend of fun and games into a chilling whodunit... The quaint mystery bookshop bequeathed to Samantha Kinsey may be struggling, but the idea she's concocted for the weekend should drum up some killer publicity-a book signing by three very popular and very competitive mystery writers: Maura Hobbs, Angela Cooke, and the reclusive Clare Beckman. Unbeknownst to Sam, Clare is using this "mystery weekend" to make the shocking announcement of her retirement. Just as Clare poses for a final career photograph, an ear-shattering gunshot rings out. Clare manages to dodge the bullet, but later falls victim to a cleverly planted poison. Wading through a long list of suspects and motives, Sam manages to uncover a convoluted plot of blackmail, greed, and deceit-a real-life mystery that would have thrilled Clare...had she lived to see it unfold.

Movie Quotes: [singing]
George W Bush: The world is full of strangers who don't share our point of view / And if they won't keep silent then we know what we must do / We're gonna get medieval on the Axis of Evil / Gonna be a great upheaval, tonight!


Crazy Credits: We know about 2 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Thanks to George W. Bush and Tony Blair, without whom this film would not have been possible.

Goofs: We know about 2 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Revealing mistakes: When Samantha is in morgue and lifts sheet to uncover Claire's body to look for tattoo on her arm, you can see Claire's left eye-lid twitch.

Trivia: There are 4 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• The film contains 34 visual effects shots.
• A scene which was scripted but not filmed, involved the musical's producer encountering (and ultimately ignoring) a group of angry protesters outside the theater.
• Also filmed, but cut from the final film was a running joke involving Vadim's assistant attempting to track down some missing Weapons of Mass Destruction props.