Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For (2000)

JB Fletcher is a speaker at Speakers Incorporated attended by various authors. Uri Malenkovitch also attends to promote his book about the KGB. When he is killed, Jessica helps a struggling writer accused of his murder.

Director:

Anthony Pullen Shaw

Writer:

J. Michael Straczynski

Stars:

Angela Lansbury, Richard Crenna, Robert Mailhouse

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Angela Lansbury	...	Jessica Fletcher
Richard Crenna	...	Warren Pierce
Robert Mailhouse	...	Mason Phillips - FBI Agent
Kathryn Morris	...	Patricia Williams
Steven Culp	...	William Batsby
Duncan Regehr	...	Yuri Malenkovich
Alan Fudge	...	Matt Rolands
Jay Acovone	...	Lt. Det. Bob Mankowski
Santiago Douglas	...	John Mendoza
Kathy Evison	...	Peggy Ryan
Dan Martin	...	Paul Neilly - FBI Agent
Scott Burkholder
Daniel Dae Kim	...	Everett Jang
Henri Lubatti	...	Fayoder
J. Patrick McCormack	...	Joseph Brennan

Storyline

JB Fletcher is a speaker at Speakers Incorporated attended by various authors. Uri Malenkovitch also attends to promote his book about the KGB. When he is killed, Jessica helps a struggling writer accused of his murder.

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Plot Keywords:

tv series reunion

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Taglines:

Jessica's back to write a few wrongs.

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Genres:

Mystery

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

18 May 2000 (USA)

Also Known As:

Arabesque: Le pacte de l'écrivain

Filming Locations:

Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel - 7000 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Corymore Productions, Studios USA, Universal TV

Technical Specs

Runtime:

95 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, located in Hollywood across from the original Grauman Chinese Theatre, was the film's hotel lobby interiors. The hotel check-in desk was positioned in the West side of the lobby, opposite the Hotel's actual main desk check-in! Primarily to provide little interruption, unnecessary actual hotel guest activity during the filming process. The set decorator Don Remacle switched and added furniture, tables, lamps and plants to the existing lobby. The hotel rooms and corridors were built on stage at Universal Studios.

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Goofs

While Jessica is reading Yuri's manuscript, Warren knocks on her door and the pages in the book indicate that she is almost finished reading it. But when the camera changes to look over her shoulder, the pages in the book show that she is now back near the beginning.

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Quotes

[last lines]
Jessica Fletcher: But because I'm a romantic I still believe that we have the potential to be nobler than we know and better than we think. That the darkness I've seen is only a shadow on the *potential* of the human heart. Warren, in his own way a romantic, made hard by the world around him until he finally made a tragic mistake. He walked away from his own moral compass. So I urge you to keep your hearts' compass on the true North of your dreams. Be free to be romantics, to reject sinisism, to ...
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Connections

Follows Murder, She Wrote (1984)

User Reviews

GREAT!

A great movie starring one of the best actors of all time: Richard Crenna.I would suggest this movie to anyone who likes great actors!Crenna Also was "Luke McCoy" on the "real McCoys(1957)", and starred in "Rambo" movies.I hope everyone else enjoyed this movie as much as I did!