Black market flowers

bkoganbing

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.

score 5/10

bkoganbing 23 October 2018

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw4414658/