The Norman Rockwell Code is a 2006

2006 in film

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 parody of the widely popular movie, The Da Vinci Code

The Da Vinci Code (film)

The Da Vinci Code is a 2006 American mystery thriller film directed by Ron Howard. The screenplay was written by Akiva Goldsman and based on Dan Brown's worldwide bestselling 2003 novel, The Da Vinci Code...

. The plot is ridiculously exaggerated in an attempt to mock the Da Vinci Code. The movie was listed on the June 2, 2006 issue of Entertainment Weekly's

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"The Must List."

Plot

The plot centers around the murder of the curator of the Norman Rockwell Museum

Norman Rockwell Museum

The Norman Rockwell Museum is home to the world's largest collection of original Rockwell art.-History:Founded in 1969, the museum is located in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where Rockwell lived the last 25 years of his life. The museum has been at its current location since 1993. The museum...

 in Stockbridge, Massachusetts

Stockbridge, Massachusetts

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. The police call in Professor Langford Fife (a pastiche of both Robert Langdon from the book and Barney Fife

Barney Fife

Bernard "Barney" Fife is a fictional character in the American television program The Andy Griffith Show, portrayed by comic actor Don Knotts. Barney Fife is a deputy sheriff in the slow paced, sleepy southern community of Mayberry, North Carolina...

 from The Andy Griffith Show

The Andy Griffith Show

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), a professor of symbology

Symbology

Symbology concerns the study of symbols.Symbology may also refer to:-Academics:* Semiotics, study of signs and symbols* Iconography, branch of art history which studies images...

 at a local community college

Community college

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, to help them solve the mystery. As the curator was dying, he put on a pair of rubber overalls. He held a lemon

Lemon

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 in one hand and a can of Chicken of the Sea

Chicken of the Sea

Chicken of the Sea is a brand of canned tuna produced by a company owned by Thai Union Group.-Company:Based in San Diego, California, the company markets a variety of other seafood items under the Chicken of the Sea brand name, including clam, crab, mackerel, salmon, sardines and tuna...

 in the other. He called the police as he was dying and told them that Mr. Fife could decode the message.

Mr. Fife meets Sopha Poisson during the course of his investigation. She informs him that the murdered curator was her grandfather. Together they work to decode a series of messages hidden in the paintings of Norman Rockwell

Norman Rockwell

Norman Percevel Rockwell was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening...

, leading to a shocking discovery: Sopha is a mermaid

Mermaid

A mermaid is a mythological aquatic creature with a female human head, arms, and torso and the tail of a fish. A male version of a mermaid is known as a "merman" and in general both males and females are known as "merfolk"...

. The movie ends with Mr. Fife taking her to the sea.

Cast

• Mike Walsh
  Mike Walsh
  Mike Walsh may refer to:* Mick Walsh , Chairman of DEC - a UK charity umbrella group.* Mike Walsh , host of the Australian television program The Mike Walsh Show...
  
   as Langford
• Danica Carlson as Sopha
• Fritz Wetherbee
  Fritz Wetherbee
  Fred "Fritz" Wetherbee is a New Hampshire writer, and television host. Fritz has been honored with five Emmy Awards. He was born July 3, 1936, and named for his grandfather Fred Minot Wetherbee II. For 10 years he was news director and general manager of radio stations WSCV/WSLE-FM in Peterborough...
  
   as the Curator
• Gregory G. Athans as the Gatekeeper
• Ralph Napolitano as Skipper
• Alfred Thomas Catalfo as the Detective
• Tom Seiler as the Police Captain
• Christopher Roblee as the Actor

External links

• The Norman Rockwell Code at the Internet Movie Database
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