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Jesse Stone: Sea Change 
Actors : Tom Selleck, Kathy Baker, Kohl Sudduth, Rebecca Pidgeon, Sean Young
Director : Robert Harmon
Studio : Sony Pictures
by Sony Pictures
Brand : Sony
Release Date : 2008-02-26
Publisher : Sony Pictures
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 0043396212718
UPC : 043396212718
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 39 reviews)
List Price : $19.94
Our Price : $12.17
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Jesse Stone: Sea Change is the fourth in the series of films starring Selleck as Jesse Stone, the former Los Angeles homicide detective who has been fired from the LAPD, left his wife and comes to Paradise, Massachusetts, to start life over again as the New England town’s police chief. Co-starring William Devane (TV’s Knot’s Landing), Kathy Baker (Edward Scissorhands) and Sean Young (Blade Runner), this installment finds Chief Stone (Selleck) bored with what he perceives as his mundane life, struggling to keep his drinking and his obsession with beautiful women under control. Stone’s restlessness gets the best of him and he re-opens a 12-year-old cold file involving the murder of a bank teller. The inquiry reveals fresh clues and Stone soon finds himself busier than ever as the unsolved case leads to another centered around an alleged rape aboard a yacht during the town’s annual Race Week. |
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Tom Selleck's reliably appealing performance in the title role carries Jesse Stone: Sea Change, the fourth in the series of films based on Robert B. Parker's novels. His Jesse Stone is one gloomy dude; fired from his job as a detective with the LAPD, unhappily divorced from his wife (with whom he still talks daily on the telephone), and now police chief in a picturesque but sleepy New England burg ironically called Paradise, Stone has relieved his boredom and general disaffection by taking to the bottle. But things are about to change. First one of the local girls accuses a visiting yachtsman, in town for Racing Week, of rape, an allegation that may or may not be true (in a scenario straight out of Jaws, when the presence of a shark threatened to ruin a holiday weekend, the tourism-obsessed Paradise town council wants to sweep this one under the rug as swiftly as possible). Then there's a robbery-murder case dating back a dozen years or more, which Stone at first takes on simply so he'll have something to do but later becomes a good deal more complicated. Sea Change is a great-looking film, with a lovely setting, gorgeous cinematography, and a golden retriever that can be relied on for adorable reaction shots. But it's also a TV movie of the week, which in this instance means that it's almost entirely predictable, with professional but less-than-convincing performances by actors dealing with a script in which the characters simply don't talk like real people (Kathy Baker and Kohl Sudduth as fellow cops are among the few exceptions). As for Jesse Stone, well, this is Tom Selleck we're talking about, and drunk or not, he is still thoroughly likable, not to mention a major chick magnet. That alone will be enough to entertain viewers looking for some easy escapism. --Sam Graham |
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Jesse Stone: Sea of Change |
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A great movie. I cant get enough of these movies depicting a troubled cop turned troubled police chief. A must see movie. |
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Worth seeing, though we've seen a lot of this before |
If you liked the first three "Jesse Stone" TV films, you'll enjoy this one, too. It's well acted, nicely shot, and there's a pretty good story, too, involving an old, unsolved bank heist and an unsavory crime aboard a visiting yacht. However, this fourth adaptation (the first four movies are adapted from specific Robert B. Parker novels) also features a noticeable amount of repetition and wheel-spinning: Jesse once again is seen struggling with alcohol, with no progress one way or the other; he once again is seen fixating on his ex-wife Jenn, with no progress one way or the other; and he once again is seen helping a young person in an awkward, uncomfortable situation. All that stuff is in the books, too, but for some reason those books (there are seven or eight of them at this point) don't come off as retreads of each other. Maybe because the original novels are rich with plot and story points covering other themes, too, elements that couldn't be fit into the movies.
This repetition and lack of movement on certain issues still qualifies as a nit pick, though. After all, how many of us struggle with certain issues indefinitely throughout our lives, and how many of us gravitate to addressing the same kinds of problems we see around us, the way Jesse zeroes in on troubled kids and tries to help them? A lot of us on both counts, I'll wager.
Still, it'd be nice to see a Jesse Stone movie that would perhaps back-burner (not eliminate, just de-emphasize) the drinking, troubled youth, and the pining for the ex-wife, and explore other aspects of Jesse's character. And that might happen: as I write this, the fifth and sixth "Jesse Stone" movies are in various stages of production, and they're not based on specific Parker novels, just the book series in general (one of the new movies will be called "Jesse Stone: No Remorse"). So, we might get to see a little extra freshness in future installments of this already very good series of TV films. |
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Review of Jesse Stone: Sea Change |
Once again, Tom Selleck shows he's a good actor. Interesting film, but it always seems a little short. I have his Jesse Stone series, so far, and will continue to collect any he makes.....
a fan, |
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Tom Selleck is always perfect |
Sea change : very very good movie as the others "Jesse Stone". I hope
that the next movie "thin ice" will be also good. Tom Selleck is always
perfect in this character. Thank you Mr Selleck. |
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Jesse Stone: Sea Change |
Awesome movie, worth watching. Mr. Tom Selleck at his very best! Oh yes!!
A worthwhile puchase. |
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