Darrow & Darrow

I loved this and hated it.

I totally loved Tom Cavanagh together with Kimberly Williams-Paisley. This is some of the best chemistry. True, they are both eccentric, especially Miles. Cavanagh is great at this. This relationship totally makes the movie and what promises to be a regular series of movies.

I hate Joanna, as played by Wendie Malick . She is Claire's mother. This woman is evil. No not in a big way. She will never kill anyone. She will probably never rob anyone, at least not of anything significant. But Joanna has no concern for the truth. To her, a white lie is not a lie at all. But her lies stretch even the term "white". The values she teaches her granddaughter, both directly and by example, are insidious and totally opposite of those of the girl's mother. There is a lot of conflict between Joanna and Claire and Claire is not wrong in any of it. This movie started out with a discussion of bullying. Joanna was trying to help Louise deal with her being bullied. Funny think is, right after that I noticed that Joanna was basically bullying Claire. It seems like she does a lot of that.

This mystery is interesting enough, but the story is much more than that by following Louise and Joanna and Claire in their personal lives. As I said, the relationship makes the movie. The relationship is just starting out, so it is all the more fun.

On balance, there is too much I don't like, but this movie comes up a winner thanks to Cavanaugh and Williams-Paisley.