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A University professor with an insatiable appetite for investigation is asked by some old family friends to investigate a series of hauntings at their antique bookstore.A University professor with an insatiable appetite for investigation is asked by some old family friends to investigate a series of hauntings at their antique bookstore.A University professor with an insatiable appetite for investigation is asked by some old family friends to investigate a series of hauntings at their antique bookstore.
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- TriviaKelsey Grammer, Nathalie Cox and Caroline Quentin also filmed Father Christmas is Back in the same area Howden, East Yorkshire at the same time in Autumn 2020 also.
- GoofsIn the UK, police cordon tape used at crime scenes is blue and white not yellow.
- ConnectionsReferences The Wizard of Oz (1939)
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The movie suffered from a generic and weak storyline...
Right, well initially I was lured in by this 2021 crime mystery's title. I mean, with it being titled "Miss Willoughby and the Haunted Bookshop", I figured that I would be in for something with some kind of haunting.
But imagine my surprise when I found out that what I was in for was something rather different. Yeah, "Miss Willoughby and the Haunted Bookshop" from writers Josh Ridgway and Kate Wood felt like a movie based on a cheap mystery novel. You know, the ones that come a dime a dozen and aimed at a slightly older audience. That is how this movie came off to me. So I was somewhat disappointed with it not having ghosts.
And I also have to say that the fact that Kelsey Grammer was on the cast list helped to win me over to sit down and watch the movie.
Director Brad Watson didn't really deliver a movie that fell all that much into my liking. Sure, a mystery movie is fine, but not if it feels like one of those cheap crime mysteries that you have tossed at you with the purchase of a weekly magazine. The storyline simply was too stereotypical, generic and predictable. And there weren't much of any suspense or thrills throughout the course of the movie.
Sure, it was fun to watch Nathalie Cox and Kelsey Grammer playing together in a movie again and at the same mansion nonetheless. They worked togethat at the very same location back in 2020 for the Christmas movie titled "Father Christmas". So that was a fun thing to witness, not that it had any influence on the storyline or anything.
The acting performances in the movie were good. But the storyline was just a tad too generic and mundane for my liking.
My rating of "Miss Willoughby and the Haunted Bookshop" lands on a four out of ten stars.
But imagine my surprise when I found out that what I was in for was something rather different. Yeah, "Miss Willoughby and the Haunted Bookshop" from writers Josh Ridgway and Kate Wood felt like a movie based on a cheap mystery novel. You know, the ones that come a dime a dozen and aimed at a slightly older audience. That is how this movie came off to me. So I was somewhat disappointed with it not having ghosts.
And I also have to say that the fact that Kelsey Grammer was on the cast list helped to win me over to sit down and watch the movie.
Director Brad Watson didn't really deliver a movie that fell all that much into my liking. Sure, a mystery movie is fine, but not if it feels like one of those cheap crime mysteries that you have tossed at you with the purchase of a weekly magazine. The storyline simply was too stereotypical, generic and predictable. And there weren't much of any suspense or thrills throughout the course of the movie.
Sure, it was fun to watch Nathalie Cox and Kelsey Grammer playing together in a movie again and at the same mansion nonetheless. They worked togethat at the very same location back in 2020 for the Christmas movie titled "Father Christmas". So that was a fun thing to witness, not that it had any influence on the storyline or anything.
The acting performances in the movie were good. But the storyline was just a tad too generic and mundane for my liking.
My rating of "Miss Willoughby and the Haunted Bookshop" lands on a four out of ten stars.
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- paul_haakonsen
- Feb 15, 2022
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- Miss Willoughby y la librería embrujada
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- York, Yorkshire, England, UK(on location)
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- £1,500,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
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