Monday 31 December 2018

A Crooked Somebody (2017)

A fraud psychic scrapes together a living as a modern world sideshow attraction, just about managing to get from one small gig to the next. He travels with his ex., who works as his assistant and dependable audience plant.

At one gig in a backwater town, his made up stream of spirit babble accidentally nudges the truth regarding a decades old missing persons case. The person responsible for the crime is in the audience and decides he needs to silence the man who, he believes, can expose his misdeed.

There's more to it than that, the above is only the first third or so of the film. It's an unusual idea for a plot and it works well. The acting's good, there's moments of humour, irony and even a little bit of sharp satire. It's no masterpiece, but definitely deserves more than the small audience it'll probably get.


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