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List Price: $14.94 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 1728
Released: June 12, 2007 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Selleck plays the role of Jesse Stone, a former Los Angeles homicide detective who left California and his ex-wife to become the police chief in a small New England town. Among his many character flaws are his struggles with a drinking problem and lingering feelings for his ex-wife.
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise Co-starring William Devane (TV’s "Knot’s Landing"), the TV movie finds Chief Stone (Selleck) settling into his new life in Paradise when he becomes obsessed with finding the killer of a teenage girl. His quest to solve the murder unearths facts indicating there is more to the girl’s history than originally suspected and the new clues lead him to probe the Boston underworld.
DVD Special Features for Jesse Stone: Night Passage Include: Digitally Mastered Audio and Video, Widescreen Presentations, Audio: English, French, Portuguese, Thai, Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Thai, Bonus Previews, Closed Captioned
Description of Jesse Stone: Night Passage:
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
Jesse Stone: Night Passage Reviews:
Jesse Stone: Night Passage 
2009-09-04 - 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
Tom Selleck in a great third act role of a lifetime
2009-09-03 - 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.
Tom Selleck -Way More than Just a Pretty Face 
2009-08-10 - 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.
Night Passage/Jesse Stone
2009-06-29 - 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.
First in the series
2009-06-27 - 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.
