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Jesse Stone: Night Passage (2006)

Jesse Stone: Night Passage poster
Directed by
Robert Harmon
Genre
drama film, mystery film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 29m
Rated
R
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 126 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A former Los Angeles homicide detective takes a job as police chief in a small New England town. He starts looking into a series of local crimes that hint at deeper secrets in the community.

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What happens

Jesse Stone: Night Passage is a 2006 American made-for-television crime drama film directed by Robert Harmon and starring Tom Selleck, Saul Rubinek and Viola Davis. Based on the 1997 novel Night Passage by Robert B. Parker—the first novel in the Jesse Stone series—the film is about a former Los Angeles homicide detective who is hired as the police chief of a small New England town and finds himself immersed in a series of mysteries. Filmed on location in Nova Scotia, the story is set in the fictitious town of Paradise, Massachusetts. Jesse Stone: Night Passage is the second in a series of nine television films based on Parker's Jesse Stone novels. The film first aired on the CBS television network January 15, 2006. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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