This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

For a gentile like myself, Brigham City is both a good murder mystery about a serial killer and a nice insight into a community where the Mormon culture predominates. The film is the creation of Richard Dutcher who wrote, directed, and starred in it.Dutcher wears two hats in this film and something you're not likely to see in a gentile setting. He's both the bishop and spiritual leader of the town and the sheriff. Being that must be a unique experience, in most small town the function of the local cops is mainly breaking up bar fights and writing speeding tickets. As one of the tenets of the LDS church is non-imbibing of liquor that is something he might not have to deal with. Still Dutcher and his deputy Matthew Brown do have an influx of other kinds of people in the town engaged in the construction trade. The place is booming.And so when a serial killer strikes the folks in Brigham City find it inconceivable that the perpetrator could be one of them. Eventually they have to explore the possibility.When a young girl goes missing, Dutcher deputizes a bunch of people and they do a house to house search which in another setting somebody might complain about a little thing like the Constitution. He does uncover a wrongdoer, but not in the same vein of what he was looking for.I did like the scenes very much of the everyday life in a Mormon community it gives some great insights. For instance Brown talks about saving money for various things including the mission trip his infant son will eventually make. Not something you would hear in another film.Dutcher is an imaginative film maker and he's turned out a good one here that can be appreciated outside the state of Utah.

It's not often that I cant find something good to say about a film, but this film had no redeemable features whatsoever.The plot centers around a sheriff who is also the towns Bishop who wants the community to maintain its status quo, but is forced to realise change when a serial killer disrupts the towns equilibrium. You'd think that would be an interesting enough premise to get some good drama out of at the very least, but what we see is not even worthy of being called a made for TV production. The 'acting' is horrendous, even by TV movie standards. None of the characters seem to actually care about the murders at all. When they get a vital piece of evidence, they don't even TRY to do anything about it or interview anyone, they all sit down and pray.That's right, they pray. I've heard of police being ineffective but this is unparalleled!The not to subtle pushing of the Morman religion is an uncomfortable sub-text that continues throughout the film. This subliminal attempt at influencing the viewer is inappropriate to the story and I feel, inappropriate full stop.The ending is the most flat conclusion that I have ever seen, especially for a plot that revolves around a serial killer.Ironically, the apparent main aim of this film is to make you have faith in God, but by the time the credits roll any belief you have in a higher power will be eradicated completely.This is arguably the worst film I have EVER had the misfortune of viewing, and I've watched Streetfighter!

Brigham City was a good movie, with great acting. The actors made that movie look like it was real. They should have had it come to the east coast, because I am originally from Pennsylvania, and the only Mormon movies that came out there were "God's Army" and "Other Side of Heaven." I recommend you show Brigham City to your friends that aren't Mormon, they should enjoy it. It's also a perfect movie to watch late at night, the movie is an action movie and scary. It's about some people being murdered in Brigham City Utah, and two cops played as Richard Dutcher and Matthew Brown. You don't find out who the suspect is until the end, but there didn't seem to be enough evidence that it was who it was. I tried to see if the suspects gun matched his or hers, but it didn't. When it showed the suspects gun really fast it matched the sheriff's, but I'll tell you only one person the suspect wasn't, it wasn't the sheriff. Could anyone email me and tell me some of the evidence that helps lead us to the suspect..

Let me start by saying I AM a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and I applaud Dutcher's efforts in filmmaking. Brigham City is EASILY one of my Top 10 favorite and most touching films of all time. Far, FAR beyond a murder mystery, this is a film about the truest and purest aspects of the gospel. Richard Dutcher himself has said that the climax of this film is the final scene, the Sacrament meeting, in which his own character, Bishop/Sheriff Wes Clayton realizes that he IS imperfect and needs a Savior just like everyone else in the world (NOT just the church) and as the rest of the town help him to reach this revelation, as opposed to the popular belief that the murderer's identity revealed and the ensuing events are the climax. For me, the murder mystery aspect of this film was INCIDENTAL, it was a vehicle to get the actual meat and message of the film across. Sure, it worked as a murder mystery, but it had a much more profound meaning. Besides the stellar, if not a little less-known, acting and the meaningful story, this film just works in every aspect. Sure, Sheriff Clayton's tactics are a little rusty and even unethical (from a religious OR political standpoint), but its understandable as his character hasn't had to deal with this type of situation before.My worry is that people will watch this movie thinking, "Ugh, another Mormon movie" and discount it just because it shows church ordinances and such, but to those people, I say, "Visitors Welcome!" (as is stated on every LDS church building) These are public things, and Dutcher isn't showing them gratuitously, or even in a lighter mood. He is serious about what he decides to portray and it shows. His portrayal of church ordinances is real and true. I give this film 15/10 and recommend it to ANYONE who has a belief in any higher being and invite them to examine the deeper motivations of its deceptively simple and typical murder mystery plot. I was moved to tears and touched beyond words to finally see a film that portrays what I believe to be the greatest news and purest truth in the world.