Mystery Woman: At First Sight (2006) (TV)

Director:

Kellie Martin

Writers:

Mark Saraceni (written by)
Michael Sloan (creator)

Release Date:

21 January 2006 (USA)

Genre:

Mystery

Plot:

US TV Schedule:

Sun. Aug. 3

5:00 PM

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Cast

Kellie Martin	...	Samantha Kinsey
Clarence Williams III	...	Philby
Nina Siemaszko	...	Cassie
Michael Cole	...	Desmond
Gerald Brodin	...	George Rebeta
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
John Aprea	...	Mark McPhillips
Scott Michael Campbell	...	Sheriff Powell
Kathryn Harrold	...	Hannah
Mark Lacy	...	Deputy Skylar
Christine Lakin	...	Francy
Sean Moran	...	Sergeant Kellner
Eyal Podell	...	Ben
Casey Sander	...	Chief Connors
Charlie Schlatter	...	Victor Short

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Company:

Alpine Medien Productions

Movie Connections:

Follows Mystery Woman: Vision of a Murder (2005) (TV)

Even as a regular viewer of this and similar series, I found this very dull

A date with a doctor and an offhand comment about the health of her parents, sees Kellie reveal to Cassie that she was adopted and suddenly now wants to find her real mother. She follows up a few leads and gets an address but, on arriving at the house of the woman she believes is her mother, she finds her standing over a dead body. Kellie pretends to the police that she was soliciting for donations and they happily accept this despite all the obvious flaws in that alibi. As her "mother" Hannah is taken away as the main suspect, Kellie stays to help. Meanwhile, back at the bookstore, Philby's quiet time alone is ruined when a man from his past turns up.

So with a shoe horn the size of a canoe, Kellie is set up with a new mystery to try and solve. There is a slight insult to the audience's intelligence by having her suddenly announce her revelation, brush away a tear, suddenly decide to track her down and, after doing it surprisingly easily, she just happens to have turned up minutes after a murder has occurred, but I suppose with daytime TV you can never overestimate the audience's intelligence. So off we go on the usual superficial mystery that never aspires to be more than daytime filler. It drifts forward with unsurprising and dull "twists" and revelations in the plot and the main thing I felt was boredom. This isn't helped by the stupid mood music played throughout as well.

It isn't like the mystery is even enough to fill the film, because we are also treated to a pointless subplot that runs throughout the film that just seems to exist to give Philby and Connors something to do. Done well the two threads would have the film bulging and it is telling that even with them both it is still baggy and boring. The cast don't help much. Martin is cute but that's about it. Siemaszko continue her trend of doing very little while Williams yet again takes his paycheque for strolling round in the background being all mysterious about his past. Harrold is OK but Lakin looks like an actresses keen to make the most of her opportunity and forces it throughout. Sander also does his usual charisma-free turn to no good effect while Podell is smarmy to the point where my stomach churned.

Overall then a dull and boring Mystery Woman film; and I say that as someone who has found some of the other films OK. The main mystery isn't much cop, while the subplot is pointless. Die-hard fans might like it but even for the casual daytime TV viewer this is pretty weak.