Written and directed by Maria Bissell
Starring Vanessa Marano, Leah Lewis, Chris Mulkey, Gabrielle Carteris and Abbie Cobb
Running time: 1 hour and 25 minutes

by Nikk Nelson

“It’s like Fargo meets Home Alone,” is how writer/director Maria Bissell described her feature debut in the chat preceding the screening of How to Deter a Robber (2020). I’m not sure who wrote up the synopsis for the festival, but they described the two main characters as ‘amateur detectives who investigate the wrong cabin’. They honestly must have mixed up another film’s synopsis because it wasn’t the story at all.