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As the uncompromising patriarch, Everett was introduced in Nancy Drew season 1, episode 4, "The Haunted Ring." Played by Martin Donovan, he attempted to cover-up the murder of his son's wife, Tiffany (Sinead Curry). The Hudsons have served as one of the rich and corrupt families of Horsehoe Bay, rivaled only by the Marvins. Warner Bros.Nancy Drew season 2 marked the return of Everett Hudson but with a new actor now embodying the role - here are the likely reasons for the cast change. Late-in-the-proceedings tension does materialize, but under the helm of Fleming and DP Alexander Gruszynski, most of the action sequences unfold with numbing indifference, while Ralph Sall’s original score is far more interesting than his soundtrack of perkily predictable pop songs. Harring’s presence pays homage to David Lynch’s brilliant R-rated twist on Nancy Drew in “Mulholland Drive” there are broad allusions to “Chinatown” and when Nancy tracks down a crucial figure (Rachael Leigh Cook) in the Draycott mystery, she visits an apartment building that will recall last year’s “Hollywoodland.” Adam Goldberg and an uncredited Bruce Willis provide all-too-fleeting film-within-the-film cameos, while Barry Bostwick delivers a tasty turn as a super-lawyer to the stars. The Hollywood-lore angle is more intriguing than the high-school scenario, and older viewers might enjoy the film references, if only because they’re diversions from the listless action. Often the most expressive onscreen elements are the costumes by Jeffrey Kurland, who dressed Roberts’ Aunt Julia in “Erin Brockovich” and “Ocean’s Eleven,” and who has a good deal of character-defining fun here. Helmer Fleming (“Dick”) struggles to generate human chemistry within the tween-movie formula. The idea of playing up Nancy’s retro qualities goes only so far, and reimagining her as a square do-gooder feels forced - and misses the point about the unfussy intelligence that has made the character a keeper for most of a century.Īs the quick-thinking, fearless title character, Roberts (“Unfabulous”) conveys the required poise and self-confidence but never overcomes a certain blankness.

#MARTIN DONOVAN IN NANCY DREW TV SHOW MOVIE#

But the movie suffers from a split personality that proves enervating.

With an iBook and a vintage roadster at her disposal, Nancy would seem to have the best of both worlds. Smitten 12-year-old Corky (Josh Flitter) lends his help, as does Ned Nickerson (Max Thieriot), who arrives from back home to deliver Nancy’s nifty blue convertible and - in the film’s only emotionally convincing performance - to confront his feelings for his favorite sleuth.

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Having rented the decrepit mansion where Dehlia lived (nice work by production designer Tony Fanning), Nancy can avail herself of an attic full of memorabilia, not to mention film footage and a projector, all under the disquieting eye of “strange caretaker” Leshing (Marshall Bell). The unsolved case from the annals of Hollywood dates way back to the glamorous days of 1981, when actress Dehlia Draycott (Laura Elena Harring) died after a five-month disappearance. Vague business has brought her widowed attorney father (Tate Donovan) to Los Angeles, where Nancy gets busy suggesting improvements to the principal of Hollywood High and delving into a movieland mystery. They’ve put Nancy (a perennial 18-year-old for decades) back in high school at 16 - all the better for setting her in contrived opposition to fashion-slave Los Angeles mean girls (Daniella Monet, Kelly Vitz), while best friends George and Bess are reduced to bit parts back in stateless River Heights. Their screenplay isn’t quite parody, but it’s larded with enough self-conscious deadpan nods to the genre to make it something less than sincere.

It’s hardly sacred literature that shouldn’t be messed with, yet the source material’s particular resonance remains elusive in this 21st century update.ĭirector Andrew Fleming and co-scripter Tiffany Paulsen have set up a familiar new-girl-in-school scenario for Nancy, overshadowing the mystery that should be the story’s engine.

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Conceived, written and edited by committee under the pseudonymous authorship of Carolyn Keene, the book series has undergone its fair share of revisions and facelifts since first publication in 1930.