Jesse Stone: Sea Change (2007) (TV)

User Rating:

7.2/10   

Director:

Robert Harmon

Writers:

Robert B. Parker (author)
Ronni Kern (teleplay)

Release Date:

22 May 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Drama

Plot Keywords:

Fourth Part | Police Chief | Sequel | Dog | City Councilman

Awards:

Nominated for Primetime Emmy. Another 2 nominations

Cast

Tom Selleck	...	Chief Jesse Stone
Kathy Baker	...	Rose Gammon
Kohl Sudduth	...	Luthor 'Suitcase' Simpson
Rebecca Pidgeon	...	Leeann Lewis
Sean Young	...	Sybil Martin
Mika Boorem	...	Cathleen Holton
Stephen McHattie	...	Captain Healy
William Sadler	...	Gino Fish
James Gammon	...	Bob
Nigel Bennett	...	Harrison Pendelton
Vito Rezza	...	Tony D'Angelo
James Preston Rogers	...	Terry Genest (as James Rogers)
Jeremy Akerman	...	Councilman 1
John Beale	...	Dr. Perkins
Saul Rubinek	...	Hasty Hathaway

Runtime:

100 min | Argentina:89 min (DVD version)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Argentina:13 | UK:15

Filming Locations:

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Company:

Brandman Productions

Trivia:

Vincent Guastaferro had originally played Gino Fish in Spenser: Small Vices (1999) (TV).

Goofs:

Continuity: The first time Jesse Stone visits Hasty Hathaway in prison, the number on Hasty's prison garb is 9501, however, on the second visit the number has been changed to 9505.

Movie Connections:

Featured in The 59th Primetime Emmy Awards (2007) (TV)

As good as the others in the series

In this latest installment of the Jesse Stone series, based on a novel by Robert B. Parker, the biggest crime problem for the police chief of Paradise is parking violations. It's a good thing, because dispatcher Rose is being trained to take over for Molly, whose pregnancy is high-risk. And Officer Simpson is in the hospital. And Chief Stone and D'Angelo don't get along.

Stone's ex has a new boyfriend, and she wants to discontinue her telephone conversations for a while. Stone still doesn't have his drinking problem completely under control, and the townspeople have become aware of it. With temptation quite strong, Stone turns to Dr. Dix.

To give him something interesting to do, Stone reopens a 15-year-old unsolved murder connected with a bank robbery in which the victim was Leeann's sister Rebecca. For years, Leeann has taken care of her mother, who had a stroke after her daughter's death.

But Stone should have waited, because he does get a challenging case. Cathleen Holton says she has been raped. Stone has reason to believe she is lying. Harrison Pendleton is rich, and he owns the schooner where the alleged incident took place. Sybil Martin looks good in a swimsuit and seems to know something. The town council would prefer that the case be kept quiet so tourists will not be discouraged from attending the Fall Regatta.

Several old cases also play a role in the movie.

As with the other movies, some people may find this boring. But Tom Selleck, William Devane and Kathy Baker have strong characters to work with and they give very good performances, so in my opinion the movie is interesting enough with minimal action. Violence is almost nonexistent until the final scenes, though I think the movie would have been fine without what happened at the end.

I think pretty much everyone does a good job here. And both main plot lines are just complicated enough, though neither is developed enough for a full movie. We never know which of the old cases will provide clues to the new ones, and sometimes we have no idea which case a certain event involves. This seems like two separate hour-long episodes, though in the real world police officers would be working on multiple cases.

I was happy with this movie, and I look forward to more of them.