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Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt (2012)

Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt poster
Directed by
Robert Harmon
Genre
drama film, mystery film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 86 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A small town police chief is forced out of retirement after his successor is killed in a car bomb. He returns to the job to investigate the crime and confront old personal demons.

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What happens

Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt is a 2012 American made-for-television crime drama film directed by Robert Harmon and starring Tom Selleck, Kathy Baker, and Kohl Sudduth. Based on the characters from the Jesse Stone novels created by Robert B. Parker, the film is about the police chief of a small New England town who returns from his forced retirement after his replacement is blown up in the town police car. The story is set in the fictitious town of Paradise, Massachusetts. Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt is the eighth in a series of nine television films based on the characters of Parker's Jesse Stone novels. The film first aired on the CBS television network on May 20, 2012. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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