Mystère et chrysanthèmes

This movie makes me feel very old and having nothing to do with the film itself. Seeing Beau Bridges makes me recall seeing him as a child actor, a jungle kid in the film Zamba. Now over 60 years later he's playing Brooke Shields's elderly father in Flower Shop Mystery: Mum's The Word.

Brooke has returned to her small town given up being a high pressure big city lawyer. She's opening a florist's shop with her friend Kate Drummond. On the day of her opening her car gets dinged in a hit and run and she also runs into the guy who took her to the senior prom, Wayne Hard now on the streets as a homeless person.

Later on she finds that Hard is the suspect in the murder of a young man and she just doesn't believe it. Her lawyer instincts kick in especially after Hard is killed.

No mystery here, the perpetrator is truly obvious. The only mystery here is how the incidents are connected and why was the original murder killed. Turns out she was just the right person to solve this case. It has to do with black market flowers and I'll say no more other than it's quite a lucrative racket.

Aiding and abetting Brooke's sleuthing is Brennan Elliott who is a former detective opening up and bar and grille down the street from Brooke's Florist shop. No doubt they will be an item in future films, there were two made, who knows if there will be more.

A nice entry in the Hallmark mystery movie series.

Me and the wife really enjoyed watching this and we recommend it. James Welch Henderson Arkansas 9/12/21.

I love the Flower Shop Mystery books. It is one of my favorite series. I am beyond disappointed with the movies. I fail to understand why Hallmark would want to make movies based on this series and then change everything people liked about the books. I was really looking forward to seeing Grace,Lottie, and Abbie's Mom. Imagine my surprise when I found out they don't even exist in the movies. I adore Brooke Shields but she is completely miscast as Abbie. She does not in any way shape or form fit the description for Abbie. Hallmark would be better off not making anymore movies based on the Fower Shop Mystery books. They should stick to creating their own original movies.

These Hallmark mysteries follow the same basic structure: a female amateur sleuth with a business of some sort that she has with a female partner, and the partner is constantly trying to talk her out of doing investigations on her own; they live in an idyllic small town.

Throw a story at it and it's done.

Brooke Shields stars in "The Flower Shop Mystery: Mum's the Word" for Hallmark. She plays Abby Knight, a widow with a teenage daughter who returns from New York City, where she worked as a lawyer, to her small home town. There she opens a flower shop.

On her opening day, Abby's car is hit by someone whom she learns later may have been fleeing a crime scene where a young man was murdered. She launches her own investigation, but then meets a good- looking ex-soldier (Brennan Elliott) who works as a bartender. The two of them work together.

The cast is of a higher level than the other mysteries, with Shields, Elliott, and Beau Bridges as Abby's father.

They just need to pay a little more attention to the scripts.

There were a series of mysteries some years ago - Jane Doe and Mystery Woman, both of which featured good actresses in the leads and were slower than molasses.

The flower shop, garage sale, and Teagarden mysteries move a little faster and have more energy behind them. They're light fare for someone who doesn't want to think for a couple of hours.

I saw Brooke Shields in person some years ago - even from where I was standing, I could tell first how tall she is, and then how graceful. At 51, she's still a beauty and always nice to see. But these films need to be brought up a notch.

Love Brooke Shields, but something needs to be done with her hair -- too dark, too straight, and too long. She's so pretty -- but this hairstyle ages her. How about a youthful style - something shoulder-length, perhaps.

She can also be dressed better than she is. Her outfits make her look dowdy and overweight.