Movie Review: Murder on the Cape (based on a true story!)

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This past weekend we watched the 2017 local Massachusetts film "Murder on the Cape." We didn't know it was inspired by a true story on Cape Cod.  The actors appear to be all local which made the story more believable. As a Mass. native I could tell the Boston accents were genuine. Opening with the murder scene was a great way to set the stage of the film,because it draws you in- just like reading murder mysteries, and I read a lot of them.   
 Although some of the people who reviewed this film gave it awful marks, it wasn't!  In fact, we watched it all the way through (with bad movies I start reading and stop paying attention - I didn't with this).  The actors did a good job, and made you interested in the characters and the situation of an incredibly hunky guy (Actor Josh Walther) having an affair with a woman who was aggressive and seductive, then angry.  It was believable and kept our attention.   

VERY LOCAL - The story and the feel of the film is very local. If you lived on Cape Cod, you understand the "slow season" in the winter there, and how melancholy it can be. It really gives you a great feel for what it's like to live on the Cape in the wintertime when tourists are not around.
    NOTE- REVIEWERS CAN BE STUPID: The film doesn't follow the case, it's NOT a documentary, it was just "INSPIRED" by the murder. People who reviewed it and gave it poor reviews don't seem to understand that "inspired by" doesn't mean "a documentary."   The screenwriter changed the murderer from the true "disconnected" garbage man to involvement of someone dealing drugs because it made more sense. That's what GOOD storytellers do!  The critics of this film are idiots who don't understand what creative license means.  

Hunky Mike Luna (Josh Walther) and Elizabeth Baldwin (Jade Harlow) - it's getting complicated...

BOTTOM LINE:  It's a GOOD MOVIE.  We give it 3.5 stars out of 5. It's an interesting story.  But, Josh Walther needed to take his shirt off more! )

ABOUT THE FILM: It was Inspired by the Christa Worthington Murder case. An out of work fisherman has an affair with a fashion writer wintering on the Cape. She returns two years later with his child, and when she is murdered, the fisherman is the prime suspect. 

THE ACTUAL CASE - Christa Worthington, 46 was found murdered in her Truro, Mass. home on Jan. 6, 2002. Police seemed to focus their investigation mostly on men who had been romantically involved with the stylish former fashion writer and single mother of a 2-year-old daughter. Yet the suspect they finally arrested, former trash hauler Christopher McCowen, 33, had no known relationship with Worthington, other than collecting her garbage.  FULL STORY of the Case:  http://people.com/archive/murder-on-cape-cod-a-break-in-the-case-vol-63-no-17/

MOVIE TRAILER: https://youtu.be/75RuZj1Ra70