‘Maggie Moore(s)’ Review: Jon Hamm And Tina Fey Reunite And Lift Murder Mystery/Romantic Drama – Tribeca Festival
deadline.comIt is always an occasion for celebration when Jon Hamm and Tina Fey are back together on screen — big or small — having shared credits on various 30 Rock and SNL episodes (and the upcoming film version of Fey’s Mean Girls).
But their latest collaboration is a clear departure, as well as a rare chance to see Fey out of her comedic zone. Directed by John Slattery, Hamm’s multi-Emmy-nominated Mad Men co-star, Maggie Moore(s), which world premiered Monday night as part of the Tribeca Festival Spotlight Narrative section, is on paper an extremely clever premise for a murder mystery.
When one woman named Maggie Moore is found murdered, the man responsible for the hit job (who also happens to be her husband) stumbles on to yet another woman with the exact same name living just a few blocks away in the same small American town.
His thinking is that if Maggie #2 also turns up dead it could throw off the investigation and put the focus on perhaps a case of mistaken identity in the murder of the first Maggie.
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