In the movie "The Cassidy Kids," there was a TV show in the '80s called "The Cassidy Kids Mysteries." It was a Saturday-morning
sitcom in which a group of precocious pre-teens solved small-town whodunits, and it was inspired by a real case (real within the movie, that is). Now, 20 years later, the real-life kids who solved that murder are reuniting to record bonus features for the upcoming "Cassidy Kids Mysteries" DVD set. What was it like having a TV show made out of something you did? Was it weird to watch TV and see a character based on you? This is a great idea for a movie, and half of the movie is great. We get to see over-the-top cheesy clips from "The Cassidy Kids Mysteries," and there are some good laughs at how the show's writers took liberties with the real-life kids they were basing it on, going so far as to turn one of them into an Asian purely for diversity purposes. Then a question emerges: What about that murder they solved, the one that inspired the TV show? What if that murder wasn't actually solved after all? Never mind what that does for the show's "based on a true story" credibility; what does it do for the five kids who have lived with it all this time?
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