Mystery 101: Playing Dead

2019

Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery

17
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 17%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 17%
IMDb Rating 7.0/10 10 1506 1.5K

Plot summary

The local theater is producing a mystery that crime fiction expert Amy unearthed. When one of the actress' life is threatened, Amy & Travis must uncover which character is playing for keeps.

Director

Blair Hayes Photo
Blair Hayes

Top cast

Jill Wagner Photo
Jill Wagner as Amy Winslow
Kristoffer Polaha Photo
Kristoffer Polaha as Travis Burke
Matthew Kevin Anderson Photo
Matthew Kevin Anderson as Duncan Spencer
Michael Kopsa Photo
Michael Kopsa as George Quirk
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795.03 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 26 min
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1.6 GB
1920*1072
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 26 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by coltras35 8 / 10

Playing Dead

Amy is working as the dramaturge on a play when lead actress Bella Brightman's life is threatened by two accidents that occur in the theatre. As Travis and Amy look into these incidents, Bella suddenly dies of a heart attack leading Amy to suspect foul play. When Amy and Travis investigate, they discover that a series of burglaries in Garrison, including one that resulted in Claire being injured, may be linked to Bella's death.Another absorbing mystery with some fine suspects, neat twists, a toy monkey at a burgled shop which is linked to the murder of an actress, secret love letters, and a cracking chemistry between the leads. Their banter is catchy. A nice escapist mystery with a light touch.
Reviewed by SnoopyStyle 5 / 10

sophomore swoon

College professor Amy Winslow (Jill Wagner) is supporting a community theater play with movie star Bella Brightman volunteering as the lead. Police detective Burke (Kristoffer Polaha) investigates when his partner Claire Tate gets knocked unconscious in the latest of a series of local break-ins.There is a possible future for this pairing. The main issue is forcing these two together to take on these cases. They should stop the pretense and simply make them partners in solving major crimes. It's a college town. Make Burke in charge of crimes on campus which makes Winslow a great partner for those cases. The main advantage of this franchise is the fairly good combative chemistry between the two actors. They work well together. They need to be together as much as possible and as quickly as possible. This one fails that test. It takes too much for Burke's case to work its way to Winslow's play. Also Bella needs to be played by a better actress. She needs to project a movie star's charisma. This actress is missing that. I chalk this up to be a sophomore swoon and hopefully it gets better as class continues.
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