Flower Shop Mystery: Mum's the Word

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.

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.

Compared to some of the newer movies Hallmark is investing in, I really like the storyline and cast interaction on theis series.

Too too bad there are only three movies in this series. The story line is great...but...Brooke Shields...WOW! Why can't all actors in HM movies act like her. She was natural, spontaneous, didn't read the words off the page, she acted with nuance, none of the young actors of HM are as natural. What a joy.

Really enjoyed this movie.

She went to high school with Greg (it's later revealed that it was in the same grade), a man who APPEARS to easily be 15 years younger.

During the time the two hung out together, I kept waiting for Greg to ask Abby if her daughter Sydney were single.

Either Greg was in the (extremely!) gifted program, or Abby was one of the slow "kids."

In the "goofs" section, it is mentioned that Marco (or more precisely the actor playing him) is too young to have been a Sargent in the time period indicated. To me, that is much less of an issue, if for no other reason than the actor who plays him looks older than his IMDB age.

Another one of the "goofs" posts mentions an error in the captions. I noticed several others.