Mary Giordano is a bright, intelligent student who goes to a catholic school. She also has an addiction to mystery novels and detective magazines, which inspire her to do her own detective work. When she starts snooping around on the case of a murderer of teenage girls, it gets her in hot water with her mentor Detective Jerry Gunn. But it also starts a team up with police cadet Tony Campbell. The two work together to find the murderer. But the closer Mary gets to solving the murder, the more danger she puts herself in of being the next victim.
Acting
Silverstone commits harder than this script deserves.
Costume
Plaid skirts and trench coats: Catholic school cosplay noir.
Writing
So many red herrings, it's basically a fish market.
Director
Pat Verducci
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released between The Crush and Clueless, this captures Silverstone's weird 'dangerous ingenue' phase before she became iconic.
Director Pat Verducci never directed again; this was her only feature, making Mary's thwarted detective dreams weirdly meta.
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