What if The Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew kept on detecting as adults? It's hard to imagine, simply because you never think of them as growing up, but The Kid Detective suggests a possible scenario.
In this private detective dramedy, Abe Applebaum was a town celebrity; a whiz kid with a talent for detecting. Now he's 30 and is still pursuing the same penny-ante cases of his childhood - missing pets and digging up info on relatives. You just have to ignore the absurdity that the cases he handles would be enough to pay a secretary (amusing and dourly played by Veep's Sarah Sutherland).
Then Abe gets a serious case; a girl's boyfriend was stabbed and the police are flummoxed. It's the first really important case he's had since a kid-era case that doesn't appear to have gone well, but he pursues it doggedly and often foolishly.
This is a rather odd movie. It starts light and comedic but gets darker as it moves along. The end is actually downright grim, and that's not really what you're expecting at the beginning.
I didn't really enjoy the last half hour as much as the rest, but it's hard for me to separate my feelings about the movie from the fact that an hour into the movie I got into a brief spat with my girlfriend that I expected to blow up when we had a chance to talk more, and I was very stressed after that. It's possible that if not for that I might have given the movie an 8.
Anyway, if you like detective movies and find the premise appealing it's definitely worth checking out.
In this private detective dramedy, Abe Applebaum was a town celebrity; a whiz kid with a talent for detecting. Now he's 30 and is still pursuing the same penny-ante cases of his childhood - missing pets and digging up info on relatives. You just have to ignore the absurdity that the cases he handles would be enough to pay a secretary (amusing and dourly played by Veep's Sarah Sutherland).
Then Abe gets a serious case; a girl's boyfriend was stabbed and the police are flummoxed. It's the first really important case he's had since a kid-era case that doesn't appear to have gone well, but he pursues it doggedly and often foolishly.
This is a rather odd movie. It starts light and comedic but gets darker as it moves along. The end is actually downright grim, and that's not really what you're expecting at the beginning.
I didn't really enjoy the last half hour as much as the rest, but it's hard for me to separate my feelings about the movie from the fact that an hour into the movie I got into a brief spat with my girlfriend that I expected to blow up when we had a chance to talk more, and I was very stressed after that. It's possible that if not for that I might have given the movie an 8.
Anyway, if you like detective movies and find the premise appealing it's definitely worth checking out.