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Maggie Moore(s) is a 2023 American black comedy mystery film directed by John Slattery and written by Paul Bernbaum. It stars Jon Hamm, Nick Mohammed and Tina Fey.




Plot


Jay Moore, the slovenly manager of a sandwich store in Buckland, NM, has gotten involved in some shady stuff. When his wife finds out and threatens to go to the cops, he hires a hit man to scare her but who decides to kill her. Police chief Jordan Sanders naturally suspects him for his wife's murder. To divert suspicion, he rehires the hit man to kill another woman with the same name, hoping the cops will think his wife's murder was a case of mistaken identity. And then things really start to spiral out of control.




Cast






Production


John Slattery directed the film from a Paul Bernbaum script. Slattery produced with Vincent Newman, Ross Kohn, Nancy Leopardi, Dan Reardon, and Santosh Govindaraju. Screen Media acquired North America distribution rights in February 2023.




= Casting

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Jon Hamm and Tina Fey joined the cast in February 2021. In September of that year Nick Mohammed joined the cast as a wisecracking police officer, and Micah Stock joined in a supporting role.




= Filming

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Principal photography began in and around Albuquerque, New Mexico in October 2021, with filming lasting into November 2021.




Release


The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in June 2023 and was released in theaters on June 16, 2023.




Reception


On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 51% of 73 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.6/10. The website's consensus reads: "Neither funny enough to recommend as a black comedy nor unpredictable enough to work as a mystery, Maggie Moore(s) is less than the sum of its parts." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 43 out of 100, based on 15 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.




References






External links


Official website at Screen Media
Maggie Moore(s) at IMDb

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