Catherine Grove I have been looking for this film for a long time, because nostalgia is a very strong thing, and the voice of Peter Kartsev, heard once, is fixed in the brain.
So, “The Grave 38” (by the way, the title of the film fits) is a medium-sized detective thriller about murders and a missing girl who, as stated in the synopsis, is not missing at all.
The detective here is played by the main "lawn mower" of America Jeff Faye. Here he is not a short-sighted uncle, but an experienced man in a Hawaiian shirt, his boyfriend in the “shadow” world, because he does not sin with any smuggling of the type of Cuban cigars, and with a sniff for crimes he is fine, only colleagues do not really like and trust frivolous, routine work. However, it was Jack (Fayy’s hero) who told us where to look from the beginning. And he hires him as a private detective to track down Sister Thomas (Jeffrey Donovan), who is not all smooth in every sense.
Despite the sensitive subject matter of the film, it is very chaste, if I may put it that way. He's not all that vulgar, except for a couple of barbs and kisses, there's nothing in the movie that non-LGBT fans can start spitting about. It also features a couple of funny jokes and atmospheric music from the 90s. The detective line in the film is weak, because very attentive viewers will understand what is happening in the first minutes of the film, but watching it is still interesting and pleasant, because the actors play at the level, there are famous faces among them (Michael Madsen, for example), and there are sandy beaches and an atmosphere of returning to the past.
7 out of 10