Handsome: A Netflix Mystery Movie

Handsome: A Netflix Mystery Movie
Film poster
Directed by Jeff Garlin
Produced by Brad Morris
Andrew Secunda
Written by Jeff Garlin
Andrea Seigel
Starring Jeff Garlin
Natasha Lyonne
Amy Sedaris
Leah Remini
Christine Woods
Steven Weber
Music by Ben Folds
Cinematography Jason Blount
Edited by Jon Corn
Production
company
JZM Films
Distributed by Netflix
Release date
  • May 5, 2017 (2017-05-05)
Running time
 81 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Handsome: A Netflix Mystery Movie is a 2017 American comedy film directed by Jeff Garlin and written by Garlin and Andrea Seigel. The film stars Garlin, Natasha Lyonne, Amy Sedaris, Leah Remini, Christine Woods and Steven Weber. It was released on Netflix on May 5, 2017.

Plot

Gene Handsome, a police detective in Los Angeles, lives alone with his dog. His boss, Lieutenant Tucker, forces him to accept a tin of cookies despite his protestations that he is trying to lose weight. Handsome, when he learns a new neighbor has moved next door, takes the cookies to her house. Her babysitter, Heather Dromgoole, refuses to accept the cookies but allows him to drop them off on the porch. The next day, Handsome and his foul-mouthed partner, Fleur Scozzari, arrive at a crime scene. Handsome is surprised to find Dromgoole has been dismembered outside of the home of actor Talbert Bacorn. After dismissing the bizarre hypotheses of several trainee detectives, Talbert deduces that Dromgoole, who he knows is cautious, must have known her killer. Bacorn says that he had been taking care of his neighbor's dog and watching his own films.

When Handsome meets his new neighbor, Nora Vanderwheel, she says Dromgoole was a good babysitter despite stealing several items from her. She leaves her daughter, Carys, with Handsome while she goes to work. Upon her return, she expresses loathing for her job as a dental assistant. She and Handsome bond when he suggests they both see the worst in people. She directs him to Dromgoole's roommate, Amanda. While interviewing Amanda, Handsome notices an extravagant lotion, and Amanda says Dromgoole was dating an older man, revealed to be Lloyd Vanderwheel, Nora's ex-husband. Lloyd denies having sex with Dromgoole and says he was a father figure. Scozzari makes an excuse to stay behind and has sex with Lloyd. Handsome learns from the medical examiner that Dromgoole's body is covered in an expensive cream and has a round dent in her skull.

After examining Dromgoole's phone records, Handsome believes Lloyd hired Dromgoole to spy on his ex-wife, which Lloyd admits to. On the way out of Lloyd's office, Handsome charms Lloyd's secretary into giving him the company's coffee table book, which contains a photograph of Dromgoole at a sponsored event. Meanwhile, Nora visits Handsome when Carys is at a friend's house. Handsome and Nora are surprised to realize that they have had the same dream about escaping their current life and caring for dogs. Nora crashes on his couch, waking momentarily to ask him a bizarre question. Handsome leaves her to sleep alone in his own bed with his dog.

Lloyd explains that the picture was at a celebrity gala. Upset she could not steal the expensive lotions and creams given to celebrities, she befriended Talbert Bacorn. Handsome leaves to interview Bacorn again, and Scozzari makes an excuse to stay behind with Lloyd. Before talking to Bacorn, Handsome breaks into Bacorn's neighbor's house, where he finds the neighbor's dog unattended. After helping the dog, he discovers that the neighbor's tools are covered in a cream. At Bacorn's house, Handsome notes that Bacorn has applied an expensive cream to himself. Handsome makes a show of checking Bacorn's locks. As Handsome looks around Bacorn's house, he finds a large, round award in Bacorn's bedroom.

When Handsome denigrates Bacorn's acting, Bacorn becomes enraged. Handsome points out that Dromgoole had a history of teasing people. He speculates that Bacorn gave Dromgoole the lotion but kept the cream for himself. After Bacorn applied cream to both of them, they had sex. As they watched Bacorn's films, Handsome says Dromgoole ridiculed Bacorn's acting. In a rage, Bacorn accidentally killed her when her head struck his award. According to Handsome, Bacorn dismembered her body using his neighbor's tools and dumped the body on his own lawn. Bacorn attacks Handsome and nearly wrestles his pistol away. Before he can, Scozzari bursts into the room and saves Handsome; Handsome had instead unlocked Bacorn's doors. When Handsome tells Nora the case has been closed, she surprises him by saying that she is moving away to care for dogs and believes him too angelic to date. Handsome encourages his dog to defecate on a neighbor's yard and goes home.

Cast

Release

On June 14, 2016, Netflix acquired distribution rights to the film.[1] The film was released on Netflix on May 5, 2017.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Andreeva, Nellie (2016-06-14). "Netflix Detective Comedy Film 'Handsome', Jeff Garlin Stars & Directs". Deadline. Retrieved 2017-04-07.
  2. ↑ Yoselin Acevedo (2017-03-21). "Handsome Trailer: Jeff Garlin is an Inept Detective in Netflix Comedy". IndieWire. Retrieved 2017-04-07.
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