Loves Music, Loves to Dance 2001

      The best friend of talk-show producer Darcy Scott is murdered while preparing a report about internet dating.  Darcy sets out to discover who the killer is and she is convinced it's one of the men her friend met online.  When Shona is talking to Darcy about topics for the show, as she walks away she says (to the group of men she is going to talk to) "Mr. Grosso! Mr. Jacobson!” and those are the names of the actual producers of this movie.  

     Loves Music, Loves to Dance is another Sonny Grosso-produced TV movie based on a Mary Higgins Clark novel.  There are some familiar Canadian actors, Cynthia Preston, Dean McDermott and Alan Hall.  It also stars Patsy Kensit, she is in the role of Darcy Scott, the producer of a trash-talk TV show.  Her friend Erin (Cynthia Preston) is doing a story for her on Internet dating.  When Erin is found murdered, Darcy is convinced the murder is committed by one of the men she dated and she sets out to find the killer!!  

     These Mary Higgins Clark TV movies are like seeing accidents, you can't help but look.  You determine to watch all of them, even though some are not very good.  This one is full of holes, especially the first scene when a woman is murdered a few feet away from a big party and she didn't scream her guts out?  It moves a little faster than some of the past adaptations.  Kensit does a good job and Preston playing Faith Roscoe on General Hospital, is lively.  Justin Louis plays the police detective assigned to the case.  Mary Higgins Clark's agent (I’m assuming) could have sold these books to anyone but the Grosso-Jacobsen group was chosen?

95 min with Patsy Kensit, Cynthia Preston, Dean McDermott Frank Pellegrino, Yannick Bisson, Louis Ferreira, Taborah Johnson, Michael Rhodes, Eugene Clark, Allan Royal, Lawrence Bayne, Robert Morelli.

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