Wolfe announced this past
week that writer/director Ed Gaffney’s mystery thriller, Russian Doll, will be
making its DVD debut this coming Apr. 17.
If you love mysteries,
then this is going to be right in your wheelhouse. Filmmaker Ed Gaffney is a writer and
filmmaker (The Perfect Wedding), his wife, Suzanne Brockmann is also a
writer … she handled the production and he, both the direction and script. The result is a noirish tale of deception (writers of mystery novels can be cruel
that way) that revolves around a revenge motive … that has simmered for nearly
30 years.
The film opens with a
young woman frantically calling 911 — you can’t, as the audience, know too much
about her, because her abduction and the information she has uncovered (a
murder plot) are central to the mystery.
Detective Viola Ames (played Melanie Brockmann Gaffney) and her partner
Detective Fiore (Sal Rendino) catch the case and clues lead them to a local
theatre where the play “The Russian Doll” is in rehearsal.
A bit of backstory about
Ames, reveals that her life-partner has recently died, and she still might not
be totally focused on her work. That
adds to the edginess of the story. What
the detectives don’t fully understand is that the play is merely a device to
exact revenge on someone … an elaborate murder, with the killer literally
hiding as part of the theatre company in plain sight.
While Ames is trying to
sort out the various clues, she encounters a woman by the name of Faith (Marem
Hassler) and the chemistry between them is obvious. Is she a diversion? The killer?
Who is the girl held hostage?
And, why, oh why, does everyone involved with “The Russian Doll” have
something to hide?
Gaffney’s Russian
Doll is a sweet crime thriller that will keep you guessing right up
until the final curtain (or is that “curtains” for someone).
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