Synopsis
A once-celebrated kid detective, now 31, continues to solve the same trivial mysteries between hangovers and bouts of self-pity. Until a naive client brings him his first 'adult' case, to find out who brutally murdered her boyfriend.
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Cast
- Adam BrodyAbe Applebaum
- Sophie NélisseCaroline
- Tzi MaMr. Chang
- Peter MacNeillPrincipal Erwin
- Maurice Dean WintConstable Cleary
- Jonathan WhittakerMr. Applebaum
- Wendy CrewsonMrs. Applebaum
- Sarah SutherlandLucy
- Kaitlyn Chalmers-RizzatoGracie Gulliver
- Kaleb HornCorey
Recommendations
- 80
The Guardian
In writer-director Evan Morgan’s unusual neo-noir The Kid Detective, it’s not just a suspect or a motive that’s a red herring, it’s an entire genre, a strange rug-pull of a movie that starts in the middle of the road before ending up off a cliff, in a way that both works and doesn’t, a fascinating gambit nonetheless. - 80
Vanity Fair
It’s a thrill to watch a film that so cogently, shrewdly renders its ideas. It’s a case of high concept, adeptly cracked. - 80
Screen Daily
Evan Morgan’s sometimes weird, sometimes whimsical thriller delivers a grown-up blend of film-noir tropes and deadpan humor, for a comedy-drama which starts off lighthearted and then deftly darkens. - 80
Variety
Both entertainingly old-fashioned and defiantly fresh. - 80
Los Angeles Times
The Kid Detective is an unexpected mix of disparate elements that in the wrong hands could have resulted in lumpy parody but, fortunately, pours out as something smooth, funny, dark and potent. - 75
Movie Nation
With its lesser-known cast, The Kid Detective was always going to get lost in the cinematic shuffle, with or without a pandemic closing most theaters. But Morgan and his new muse have concocted a whodunit that could give Hercule Poirot a run for his money in a contest for the year’s best mystery. - 70
Screen Rant
At its core, The Kid Detective is also just a plain, entertaining mystery - that has a satisfying conclusion both for the case itself and Abe's journey. Anyone interested in the premise or in Brody's performance would do well with giving The Kid Detective a watch. - 67
The Film Stage
It’s a good role for Brody by simultaneously feeding on the typecast nature of him being neurotic Seth Cohen from The O.C. and rejecting it by toning down the sarcasm and replacing it with fatigue.
