I so wanted to like this movie. It stars former Brady Bunch star Maureen McCormick as Leah Farrell, a bored middle-aged title examiner in Massachusetts who stumbles onto to a murder involving some land, organized crime and an elderly lady. I always thought Maureen McCormick was a better actress than she was given credit for, but I don't think this movie helped her career any. This is truly one of the worst movies I have ever seen. But it's not her acting that is bad - quite the contrary, she's the best thing in a horrible film. It's (as usual) the script. Even Stephen Furst's (of National Lampoon's Animal House) direction is not to blame, he too makes the most out of an atrocious script. Co-starring Christopher Atkins as a deputy DA who helps Leah with her investigation into the murder, this could have been a good Lifetime-type movie. I will say that the lighting in most of the scenes reminded me or a porno movie, or a home movie at best. It's that bad. The total budget for this clunker couldn't have been much. There are several strange characters that do absolutely nothing for the plot (Leah's grandmother's bingo buddies are especially irritating) and while things pick up a bit at the ending, by then it's way too little, too late. Please someone in Hollywood, give Maureen McCormick a script worthy of her so she won't have to act in any more pieces of shit like this. She deserves better, and so do we.
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