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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396144699
Format: NTSC, Widescreen
Item Dimensions: 15
Label: Sony Pictures
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageChineseSubtitledEnglishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledPortugueseSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchDubbedPortugueseDubbed
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
MPN: D14469D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: June 12, 2007
Running Time: 89 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: January 15, 2006
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Product Description:
A prequel to "Stone Cold" in the series of Jesse Stone novels by Robert B. Parker the story picks up after Jesse Stone is fired from the Los Angeles Police Department. He becomes an unlikely candidate recruited by the town board of selectman to become police chief of Paradise a small town on Boston's North Shore. The board hopes his failed experience will keep him from digging too deep into the town's secrets. Hungover on his first day on the job he must investigate a domestic abuse case that ends up leaduing to a money laundering scheme perpetuated by a manager of a local bank.Run Time: 89Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 043396144699 Manufacturer No: 14469
Amazon.com:
How Tom Selleck's world-weary cop Jesse Stone became the police chief of sleepy Paradise, Mass., is revealed in this engaging prequel to the first made-for-TV Stone feature, Stone Cold (2005). Selleck is once again well cast as the rough-around-the-edges Stone, whose drinking problem gets him ejected from the Los Angeles police force; he soon finds himself the head lawman in a small New England fishing village, where his slow dissolution continues until a routine domestic disturbance case reveals connections to money laundering and murder, with several of the town's most affluent names as possible suspects. Selleck is well-matched by veteran scene stealer Saul Rubinek, and there's good work by Polly Shannon as a city attorney who becomes Stone's romantic interest, and Stephen Baldwin as an ill-tempered local. Fans of author Robert B. Parker (on whose books the Jesse Stone films are based) and Selleck won't be disappointed by this smart thriller. --Paul Gaita
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
Fills in the gaps as to how Jesse Stone came to be the Chief of Police in Paradise. Great characters, great roll for Tom Selleck
Rating: -
The Jesse Stone "films", which are really CBS TV two-hour special recurring dramas, have been a big surprise in many ways. The production quality has been very high, the filming locations, in Nova Scotia, standing in for Maine, very scenic and atmospheric, the way in which the pulp genre characters and B-List former stars and character actors have been used has been keenly attuned to the needs of both Robert Parker's style and Tom Selleck's long established screen persona, the scripts have been lean and well crafted, and Tom Selleck has been wonderful, perfect, perhaps, as Jesse Stone. The first two instalments, with Viola Davis, were especially good. The score is wonderful -- is there any way to get that great music on CD?
However, since the exit of actress Viola Davis as Jesse's fellow cop, police station manager and conscience, and the arrival of the very different Kathy Baker, in a similar role, the series has taken a definite turn into late middle aged "Murder She Wrote" torpor. The edginess that made it alluring has waned, the supporting actors have become less notable, and the recurring business about Jesse's drinking, his shrink, his dog, his indifference to being fired from his "last chance" job as chief of police, and the calls from his ex-wife have all become a little more rote, and lifeless.
That said, there are some wonderful pulp genre elements here, and I guess I will keep watching. But they need to take stock and amp it back up a bit. It may be aimed at an older demographic, and that may even include me. But it's getting just a little too stolid, even for aging boomers with an affection for gruff but sensible Tom Selleck in a great third act role of a lifetime.
Rating:  -
A keen sense of drama, humor, timing and courage- all wrapped up in an aging Selleck. The mix of booze, despair, and the fight for his brand of honor is done to perfection. Parker's writing is genius and so is the script for this movie. Every actor is worth watching...but, Selleck is riveting in his complexity. As Jesse Stone, his flaws captivate. One more trouncing of the bad guys-Jesse style-makes our hearts glad.
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Enjoy all Tom Selleck ever since Magnum P.I.. Really enjoy the recent Jesse Stone series as well as Robert B. Parkers books. But, at any age, his or mine, Selleck is always easy on the eye.
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If you started this series with "Stone Cold" and then watched "Night Passage", you may think that this should have been the first to come out. I don't know why they made "Stone Cold" first, but it doesn't matter as I am on my second time around watching this great series in order.
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