Warning: This article contains spoilers aboutTheKid Detective.
Kid Detectivefollows a suburban celebrity sleuth who hit his career peak at the age of 13.
Young Abe is swimming with clout.
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He even has his own office with a patterned frosted glass door straight from your favorite noir.
Unfortunately, Abe’s early career craters as he hits puberty.
“They’re not elderly parents.
[It’s] older parents who are sitting there gobsmacked,” Brody says of the moment.
“They don’t know what to do.
It’s uncomfortable for them.
They never knew how to deal with [Abe’s] issues and trauma.
They still don’t.
Abe is kinda alone.”
The overextended cry acts as a release valve for the entire movie.
After all, Abe’s sleuthing skills are as sharp as ever.
But, he never decided it was time to grow up and get out of his comfort zone.
You dont have the experience, Whittaker’s Mr. Applebaum tells Abe in a cutting moment.
“Even in the darkest of times, I’m drawn to this macabre sense of humor.
Certainly, I have it.
Certainly, Evan does too,” Brody says of working withKid Detective’sfirst-time feature director Evan Morgan.
After the dust is settled, Abe is back sitting in front of his parents again.
Abe’s cry is a performance du jour from Brody.
“He’s made some of the greatest movies of all time,” Brody says of Kauffman.
“There’s so much brilliance on display in every frame in that movie.”
The Kid Detectiveis out now.
Watch the trailer above.
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