Columbo: Columbo Likes the Nightlife (2003) (TV)

Director:

Jeffrey Reiner

Writer (WGA):

Michael Alaimo (written by)

Release Date:

30 January 2003 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Mystery

Plot:

Columbo gets a taste of the Los Angeles rave scene as he investigates the apparent suicide of a tabloid reporter.

Plot Keywords:

Rave | Murder | Reporter | Ex Husband | Blackmail

Cast

Peter Falk	...	Columbo
Matthew Rhys	...	Justin Price
Jennifer Sky	...	Vanessa
Douglas Roberts	...	Linwood Coben
Carmine Giovinazzo	...	Tony Galper
Julius Carry	...	Policeman
Steve Schirripa	...	Freddie (as Steven R. Schirripa)
John Finnegan	...	Sean Jarvis
Valerie Landsburg
Jorge Garcia	...	Julius
Patrick Cupo	...	Officer Rogers
Eve Kagan	...	Pink Feather Boa
Jamison Yang	...	Print Guy
Karen Maruyama	...	Maid
Ariel Llinas	...	Paramedic

Also Known As:

Columbo: Murder by Suicide (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Company:

Studios USA

Trivia:

Columbo hasn't been promoted by the Los Angeles Police Department in several decades. He has been a lieutenant for at least 35 years.

Quotes:

Lt. Columbo: What a great idea, fish in a dance floor. Fantastic! Yeah, fantastic!

Movie Connections:

Follows Columbo: Caution - Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health (1991) (TV)

Loud, but the rumpled detective's still got it

They actually called it 'Columbo Likes the Nightlife.' He didn't seem to be enjoying it much, though. He thought the music in the rave dance clubs was too loud, and so did I. And they even had that same awful music as background in scenes outside the clubs.

An actress has a fight with her ex-husband who was jealous of her new boyfriend, with deadly results. The boyfriend helps the survivor deal with the situation but one of the parties receives an 'I saw what you did' call. As a result of the blackmailing, the movie's murder is committed but made to look like a suicide, complete with a suicide note on a computer. Then the familiar broken-down car shows up at the murder scene with the increasingly elderly detective in his wrinkled raincoat. And he is not fooled. For those new to the 'Columbo' series of movies, the Lieutenant with no first name is very polite and appears sincerely interested in everything (usually, it turns out, because he sees a clue), but also quite obnoxious. And while he didn't appear as completely ignorant as usual to the guilty parties, he seems to know just enough to make them nervous, but he tends to be satisfied with their explanations of why things don't make sense. I have been watching these movies for about 10 years, and while there may be no reason to consider this one anything special, it did not disappoint. Unlike most murder mysteries, the audience nearly always knows who did it, but the fun is in watching the detective solve the crime.