Jesse Stone: Night Passage
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| Genre | Crime film |
| Based on |
Night Passage by Robert B. Parker |
| Screenplay by | Tom Epperson |
| Directed by | Robert Harmon |
| Starring | |
| Theme music composer | Jeff Beal |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
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| Producer(s) | Steven J. Brandman |
| Cinematography | David Gribble |
| Editor(s) | Chris Peppe |
| Running time | 89 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Brandman Productions |
| Distributor | Sony Pictures Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBS |
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| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Stone Cold (2005) |
| Followed by | Death in Paradise (2006) |
Jesse Stone: Night Passage is a 2006 American 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.
One moonlit night in Santa Monica, California, former LAPD homicide detective Jesse Stone (Tom Selleck) looks out at the ocean, waiting to sober up before driving across the country with his dog Boomer to the small coastal town of Paradise, Massachusetts, where he has been offered the position of police chief. Forced to resign from the LAPD for drinking on duty, Jesse knows that the Paradise job is his last chance. From a motel in Missouri, he calls his ex-wife, actress Jenn Stone, with whom he still talks regularly despite their divorce. Jesse's drinking problem became serious after he discovered that she was having an affair with her producer.
Meanwhile, Hastings "Hasty" Hathaway (Saul Rubinek), a wealthy banker and corrupt town council chair in Paradise, orchestrates the 'retirement' and a secret $50,000 payoff of the previous police chief, Lou Carson (Mike Starr), who has known about Hathaway's money laundering operation. Carson accepts the payoff, planning to 'throw a fishing rod in the car' and drive off to who knows where. Hathaway offered Jesse the position thinking that he was a drunk and a loser, who could easily be manipulated.
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