A movie that keeps revealing itself to be a little bit odder, a little bit better than you thought it was two minutes ago, Evan Morgan's The Kid Detective is either a lucky accident or a balancing act more graceful than a first-time writer/director should expect to pull off.
The tale of a 32 year-old failure (Adam Brody) who was once his town's most celebrated child, it spends much of its time looking, with some humor but little mockery, at how it feels to fail to live up to one's potential.
But it's also the mystery yarn its title suggests, and one whose darker moments require us to point out that, title notwithstanding, this isn't quite a family film.
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