Overview: Mary is the conniving wife of a well-known televangelist who goes by the moniker John the Preacher. Facing divorce with meager financial settlement, she partners with his mistress, Ginny, to rob JP of his cash fortune and split the loot. When they discover him dead from a gunshot wound to the head, their scheme starts to unravel piece by piece.

Through a clever cover-up, his murder was ruled a suicide by the NYPD, but a crooked cop has other plans. When their attempt to pay off the detective backfires, a series of events unfold that reveal how the real perpetrators left them all outwitted and put out to pasture. Through a cast of offbeat characters and eccentric cameos, the story of one man’s life and death takes twists and turns through the murky glint of a cocktail glass.

Blu-ray Verdict: Just to paint a quick picture, based in New York City American visual artist, actor, and filmmaker Dean Dempsey has had his art span a range of media including photography, painting, drawing and video. He is also the writer and director of his debut feature film Candy Apple (2015), for which he won the NY Perspectives Award at the Winter Film Awards the following year.

Dempsey later directed and co-wrote his second feature-length movie Deadman’s Barstool (2018), which brings us the story of the wife of a televangelist who discovers her scheme to rob him has been stopped by someone else’s murder plot.

So yes, Dean Dempsey gives us that nasty side of New York that was so charming in the ’70s and ’80s indie films and creates a tight, darkly hilarious Manhattan murder mystery filled with a rogues’ gallery of local lowlifes.

Among them are two fortune-telling scammers who use unconventional Tarot cards, and maybe more sinister tricks. But are any of these comical grifters truly capable of murder? You will have to watch and find out for yourselves, which I cannot implore you enough to do.

The film also stars Sara Friedman (Standing Up, Falling Down), Victoria Beltran (The Dictator), Nancy Evans (Tripped Up), and Justin Sams (King Of Knives).

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