Contrary to popular belief, this is a great movie, filled with mystery and suspense, and some comedy, ideal for families and kids especially, over seven years old most likely.
It opens with Billy Ruckman, a boy who comes off as being very protective about whom his widowed mother dates. He and his little brother, Kade, and his friends team up and act like brothers to scare off anyone they don't like, and it works. With her date canceled, their mother Vicky Ruckman, is invited to go see their neighbor, Michael Chambers play in an opera, which means Billy and Kade have to go along. Another woman in the crowd is interested in Michael's music, but not for the same reason as Vicky who is just intrigued by the beauty of the music.
Marcello Janowitz has come to town and finds out that Michael has been passing off the music she created as his own and has been getting paid for it. After the opera, she asks Kade to direct her to Michael Chambers' house, which is where she meets her fate. An argument over her music and the money owed and what she intends to do to ruin him, leads to her death - a murder, silhouetted by the blinds, which Billy witnesses from his bathroom window. The next day he and his friends band together and decide to find the missing body, hidden in Chambers' house before he gets back. An adventure filled with chaos and close calls ensues from there, and the Clubhouse Detectives are determined to find this murdered lady before they become the next victims.
Suspense is the key to this movie's terror that will snatch the viewers, kids and adults. There is no blood or gore, very little violence, very little if any language, a couple of crude lines (but what kids' movie of today doesn't have any and nobody complains about them?) All in all, a fantastic little murder/mystery for the family, bound to have your heart pounding until near the very end.
It opens with Billy Ruckman, a boy who comes off as being very protective about whom his widowed mother dates. He and his little brother, Kade, and his friends team up and act like brothers to scare off anyone they don't like, and it works. With her date canceled, their mother Vicky Ruckman, is invited to go see their neighbor, Michael Chambers play in an opera, which means Billy and Kade have to go along. Another woman in the crowd is interested in Michael's music, but not for the same reason as Vicky who is just intrigued by the beauty of the music.
Marcello Janowitz has come to town and finds out that Michael has been passing off the music she created as his own and has been getting paid for it. After the opera, she asks Kade to direct her to Michael Chambers' house, which is where she meets her fate. An argument over her music and the money owed and what she intends to do to ruin him, leads to her death - a murder, silhouetted by the blinds, which Billy witnesses from his bathroom window. The next day he and his friends band together and decide to find the missing body, hidden in Chambers' house before he gets back. An adventure filled with chaos and close calls ensues from there, and the Clubhouse Detectives are determined to find this murdered lady before they become the next victims.
Suspense is the key to this movie's terror that will snatch the viewers, kids and adults. There is no blood or gore, very little violence, very little if any language, a couple of crude lines (but what kids' movie of today doesn't have any and nobody complains about them?) All in all, a fantastic little murder/mystery for the family, bound to have your heart pounding until near the very end.