I am looking forward to this movie, as I was a fan of the books. However, I am disappointed in the casting of Aurora. I always pictured her being played by someone kind of quirky, and a little less conventional looking...someone like Hope Davis. Candace Cameron looks too perky and youthful for this part. I don't see her pulling off the cynical and the quiet loner type.
shareJust finished watching the movie, and I did think Cameron was wrong for this type of role. She was way too perky. I've read the whole Teagarden series and I've always thought of Aurora as very quiet and introspective. Almost the complete opposite of Cameron in this movie.
shareI didn't read the books and never heard of them so I wasn't expecting a certain type of actress to play the part. I thoroughly enjoyed Candace Cameron in the movie
shareI agree. Not to say Candace was horrible but what a disservice to all us book lovers. At the very least they should have mad her hair frizzy. Candace is too pretty.
shareYeah, they sometimes change the characteristics of characters. In the book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Nurse Ratchet is explicitly big but Louise Fletcher is not in the movie.
Is Aurora described in the books as being quirky and less conventional looking?
Yes, she's tiny and has lots of frizzy brown hair and wears tortoise shell glasses.
Hallmark always put a smiley blonde on their movies, they did the same with the Hannah Swensen series.
I have listened to the whole series twice and Candace Cameron is definitely not Aurora Teagarden. Also Marilu Henner is not a Lauren McCall look-alike. She was not in the lest bit glam.
shareDidn't read the book but loved Candace as Aurora. I do agree had I read the book first I would've been upset they casted the complete opposite.
shareCandace was only satisfactory in terms of pesonality but I am comparing her to the Hallmark Channel assortment of clever women who solve murders. The supporting cast makes up for it in this particular offering.
shareI thought Candace Cameron delivered some funny lines very well. I haven't read the books. I suppose the trouble with reading the books first, the reader gets an image of a character in their mind. And then the movie never lives up to that image.
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