Flower Shop Mystery: Mum's the Word (2016)

Very disappointing...

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Love Brooke Shields, but something needs to be done with her hair -- too dark, too straight, and too long. She's so pretty -- but this hairstyle ages her. How about a youthful style - something shoulder-length, perhaps. She can also be dressed better than she is. Her outfits make her look dowdy and overweight.

I love the Flower Shop Mystery books. It is one of my favorite series. I am beyond disappointed with the movies. I fail to understand why Hallmark would want to make movies based on this series and then change everything people liked about the books. I was really looking forward to seeing Grace,Lottie, and Abbie's Mom. Imagine my surprise when I found out they don't even exist in the movies. I adore Brooke Shields but she is completely miscast as Abbie. She does not in any way shape or form fit the description for Abbie. Hallmark would be better off not making anymore movies based on the Fower Shop Mystery books. They should stick to creating their own original movies.

These Hallmark mysteries follow the same basic structure: a female amateur sleuth with a business of some sort that she has with a female partner, and the partner is constantly trying to talk her out of doing investigations on her own; they live in an idyllic small town.Throw a story at it and it's done.Brooke Shields stars in "The Flower Shop Mystery: Mum's the Word" for Hallmark. She plays Abby Knight, a widow with a teenage daughter who returns from New York City, where she worked as a lawyer, to her small home town. There she opens a flower shop. On her opening day, Abby's car is hit by someone whom she learns later may have been fleeing a crime scene where a young man was murdered. She launches her own investigation, but then meets a good- looking ex-soldier (Brennan Elliott) who works as a bartender. The two of them work together.The cast is of a higher level than the other mysteries, with Shields, Elliott, and Beau Bridges as Abby's father.They just need to pay a little more attention to the scripts.There were a series of mysteries some years ago - Jane Doe and Mystery Woman, both of which featured good actresses in the leads and were slower than molasses.The flower shop, garage sale, and Teagarden mysteries move a little faster and have more energy behind them. They're light fare for someone who doesn't want to think for a couple of hours.I saw Brooke Shields in person some years ago - even from where I was standing, I could tell first how tall she is, and then how graceful. At 51, she's still a beauty and always nice to see. But these films need to be brought up a notch.

If I had not read the Flower Shop Mystery books,I may have enjoyed the movie. However, the characters are not at all like the books. I was very disappointed. Although I like Brooke Shields, she is not Abby Knight.Short, red hair and freckles? And where was Abby's wacky artist mom? And cousin? And when did Abby get married, have a grown daughter and then become a widow? Where were the great people that work in the flower shop with Abby? The only character that remotely resembled the books was Marco...and then the name of his bar was different and his past. The cozy mysteries written by Kate Collins are great and I was really looking forward to the movie. Very disappointed.