Comedy, Crime, Mystery
While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She "covers" the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Out of the Past
The Thin Man
It Happened One Night
Doctor X
The Return of Doctor X
Prêt-à-Porter
No Sudden Move
Michael
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Lady Against the Odds
Murder on the Orient Express
That Beautiful Somewhere
Class of 1984
The Life of David Gale
Cross Country Cruise
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Dolores Claiborne
Die Supernasen
The Zodiac
Never Been Kissed
SIMILAR MOVIES
Out of the Past
IMDB 7.6 | Nov , 1947
The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and forces him to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.The Thin Man
IMDB 7.5 | May , 1934
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.It Happened One Night
IMDB 7.8 | Feb , 1934
A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.Doctor X
IMDB 6 | Aug , 1932
A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.The Return of Doctor X
IMDB 6 | Nov , 1939
When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds. He returns with the police to find the hotel empty and the body vanished. Garrett writes about the incident but is fired when Merrova, alive and well, goes to the paper to complain. Now his only chance to get his job back is to find the truth, which involves the grisly scheme of a madman.Prêt-à-Porter
IMDB 5.2 | Dec , 1994
During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another.No Sudden Move
IMDB 6.4 | Jun , 2021
A group of criminals are brought together under mysterious circumstances and have to work together to uncover what's really going on when their simple job goes completely sideways.Michael
IMDB 5.7 | Dec , 1996
Tabloid reporters are sent by their editor to investigate after the paper recieves a letter from a woman claiming an angel is living with her.Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
IMDB 6.6 | Feb , 1994
He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. The Ace is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to eyeball with a man-eating shark, stakes out the Miami Dolphins and woos and wows the ladies. Whether he's undercover, under fire or underwater, he always gets his man… or beast!Lady Against the Odds
IMDB 10 | Apr , 1992
A private detective becomes involved in a new cast when her partner's guardian is murdered.Murder on the Orient Express
IMDB 7.1 | Nov , 1974
In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.That Beautiful Somewhere
IMDB 3.9 | Apr , 2007
A detective teams up with a young female archaeologist to unravel the mysterious death of a 'bog body' found in a native swamp rumoured to have curative powers. It is the story of two wounded souls searching for healing and redemptionClass of 1984
IMDB 6.4 | Aug , 1982
Andy is a new teacher at an inner city high school that is unlike any he has seen before. There are metal detectors at the front door and the place is basically run by a tough kid named Peter Stegman. Soon, Andy and Stegman become enemies and Stegman will stop at nothing to protect his turf and drug dealing business.The Life of David Gale
IMDB 7.4 | Feb , 2003
A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.Cross Country Cruise
IMDB 6 | Jan , 1934
A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He kills his jealous wife and implicates her in the murder. However, a playboy character who had been flirting with the woman earlier turns amateur detective and clears her.The Hound of the Baskervilles
IMDB 6.8 | May , 1959
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.Dolores Claiborne
IMDB 7.3 | Mar , 1995
Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a witness who can place her at the scene of the crime. Things look bad for Dolores when her daughter Selena, a successful Manhattan magazine writer, returns to cover the story.Die Supernasen
IMDB 4.6 | Sep , 1983
Tommy loses his job as a make-up artist at Bayerischer Rundfunk after fogging an announcer with hairspray and then insulting her; Mike is dumped by his girlfriend because, on the one hand, he only cares about his music and, on the other hand, he is financially stranded. So they both need money and decide to become detectives. On behalf of a rich industrialist, they are to shadow his wife and take photos of her cheating. So Mike and Tommy travel to Bad Spänzer, where the lady is staying. But she is as faithful as gold, so Mike, disguised as a Prussian, makes advances to her so that Tommy can take the required photos. But Tommy soon has to slip into a costume, too: Since Tommy looks deceptively similar to an Arab sheik, he is hired by the sheik's secret service to double him. What Tommy doesn't know: assassins want to kill the sheikh at all costs.The Zodiac
IMDB 5.5 | Jul , 2005
An elusive serial killer known as the Zodiac terrorizes the San Francisco Bay in the late 1960s, while detectives aim to stop him before he claims more victims. Based on a true story.Never Been Kissed
IMDB 6.2 | Apr , 1999
Josie Geller, a baby-faced junior copywriter at the Chicago Sun-Times, must pose as a student at her former high school to research contemporary teenage culture. With the help of her brother, Rob, Josie infiltrates the inner circle of the most popular clique on campus. But she hits a major snag in her investigation -- not to mention her own failed love life -- when she falls for her dreamy English teacher, Sam Coulson.