Written by Gillian Horvath And Ron McGee
Directed by Ron Oliver
Dorothy: "We don't pick our fights. They pick us."
On to the third installment in the Donald Strachey (Chad Allen) series and it was the turn of a lesbian couple to take centre stage for the troublesome private investigator. As per usual, there was a nice few twists to be had with this one.
The movie started with Donald inadvertently bumbling an undercover investigation, headed up by undercover cop, Gina Salter (Lori Ann Triolo). Donald's path had crossed with her because his client Peter Garrity (David Orth) had Donald convinced that she was an unfaithful wife.
Garrity's general cagey behaviour gave Kenny Kwon (Nelson Wong) a chance to gain some field experience as he didn't want to be Donald's secretary for the rest of his career. Saying that, Kenny might need to brush up more on his spying skills.
Getting to the lesbian couple in question. It's thanks to Timmy Callahan (Sebastian Spence) and his ex-boyfriend, Andrew McWhirter (Damon Runyan) that we're introduced to guidance counsellor Dorothy Fisher (Margot Kidder) and her long term partner, Edith Strong (Gabrielle Rose). Both women had one hell of a hate campaign levied at them from all sides but why?
For some, it was down to Dorothy's job and her wanting one of the student's parents to accept them being gay. Mainly it was down to the fact that Dorothy and Edith were living in a house that was in the way of a big property scam, involving three people that I'm not too shocked were working together all along.
I knew that Andrew was shady from the get go. He gave that "too good to e true" vibe and it did seem like when he wasn't blackmailing Dorothy (who knew Edith's big secret), he was doing his level best to drive a wedge between Donald and Timmy. Needless to say, that ultimately he didn't succeed on that front, but he almost got lucky.
- There's a nice romantic subplot with closeted teens Joey Deems (Kerry James) and Derek Baskins (Keegan Macintosh). Donald gave them some good advice. Based on the second book in the series.
- Edith's real name was Laura Whitaker and her protesting past in New York resulted in the death of a friend.
- Donald doesn't like Indian food but didn't struggle with that Biryani during that dinner with Timmy and Andrew. Detective Bailey seems to have a new respect for Donald's methods.
- Chronology: This was mostly set in Hollis, given the focus on Dorothy and Edith.
On The Other Hand, Death made good use of its supporting cast and had some good twists with the story. There's a nice look into Donald and Timmy's relationship and I did enjoy Dorothy and Edith as a couple.
Rating: 7 out of 10
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