Starring: Tom Selleck, Mimi Rogers, Jane Adams (II), Reg Rogers, Viola Davis Directed By: Robert Harmon Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Sony Pictures Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 99 Release Date: June 28, 2005 Running Time: 87 minutes Theatrical Release Date: February 20, 2005
Description: Tom Selleck is Jesse Stone, a former L.A. homicide detective who left behind the big city and an ex-wife to become the police chief of the quiet New England fishing town of Paradise, Massachusetts. Stone's old habits die hard as he continues to indulge in his two favorite things - scotch and women. When a series of murders take place, and a high school girl is raped, he's forced to face his own demons in order to solve the crimes.
Stone Cold - Tom Selleck Enjoy the character. The author has created a marvelous character. Hope to see more opportunities to view future episodes. Will search for new DVDs.
Entertaining plot with two storylines Stone Cold
I have never read any of Robert B. Parker's novels, but I must admit that this movie was entertaining enough that I will try. The main character is Jesse Stone (Tom Selleck), the Chief of Police of Paradise, Massachusetts, population 55,000. (I believe the book takes place in Maine, not Mass.) As the movie begins, one of his deputies, "Suit", comes across a murdered man on the rocks of the coast. Soon, there are other bodies piling up, as a pair of serial killers randomly choose their victims from the town's tiny population. At the same time, Jesse and his deputy Molly are investigating the gang rape of a local sixteen year-old named Candace by three of the town's football players.
While I enjoyed the two storylines, I wasn't enamored of the main character. He's dating the town's lawyer, Abby Taylor, while pining away for his ex-wife Jen (who is a nasty reporter) and talking to her almost every day, and then halfway through the film, he's dating a third woman, the defense attorney for one of the rapists. Oh, and by the way, he's an alcoholic. Fortunately, you don't have like his personal life to appreciate that Chief Stone gets his man. The way he gets them is particularly clever and his sense of justice makes you wonder how it is that he spends so much time with lawyers and reporters (who seem to consistently interfere with justice ever being done).
If you like surprise endings, this has one. If you like neat tidy endings, you won't like the end to the rape prosecution, but I must admit that it's pretty realistic. If I had my druthers, I'd make the Chief more likeable, but I think the appeal of the books is to men, not women.
I would ignore the order the movies were released in and watch them in chronological order: Night Passage, Stone Cold, and Death in Paradise.
Tom Selleck at his best... Stone Cold is a great find because Tom Selleck is one of our favorite actors and we own the entire Magnum PI collection. In this series a more mature but still incredibly handsome Tom Selleck plays the character of the Chief of Police of a small New England town called Paradise, Massachusetts.
Jesse Stone is a former Los Angeles homicide detective who left life in the big city and is now underemployed, but still doing service to the community, which he loves. He divorced the "only woman he is able to love" and in each of the movies, for we now own three, he has relationships with rather sophisticated and interesting women, such as the attorney played here by Mimi Rogers.
While life in Paradise is slow and for the most part the Chief of Police only gives out traffic or parking tickets, a series of murders take place, and in this episode a high school girl is raped and we see the Chief of Police solving murders, and protecting the young girl, allowing her father to "extract" vengeance in ways that we simply cheered.
Don't miss it, the pace is slow but introspective, the plot is deep and intelligent, and you are left with feeling admiration for a man that has done wrong things while always attempting to do what is right!
GREAT SELLECK This is the 2nd movie in the series of 4 made for TV movies. Night Passage being the first, Death In Paradise the third, and Sea Change the fourth. All the movies will stand alone but if you want to really get into it buy all 4 movies. Selleck is at his best in these. The stories are about Jesse Stone, an ex LAPD detective who drowns his sorrows in scotch on the rocks, as the new chief of police in a small town in New England. Jesse is a nice guy with a very stong sense of right and wrong even if it means being unconventional. Great movies and great plots. Buy them and curl up in a chair like you are reading a good book.
My grandmother loved this movie My grandmother is a Tom Selleck fan and now she's a big Stone Cold fan too.
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