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Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt is a american film of genre Drama released in USA on 19 may 2012 with Tom Selleck
Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt (2012)
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Add to a movie listJesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt is a 2012 American television mystery film directed by Robert Harmon and starring Tom Selleck, Kathy Baker, and Kohl Sudduth. Based on the characters from the Jesse Stone novels created by Robert B. Parker, the film is about the police chief of a small New England town who returns from his forced retirement after his replacement is blown up in the town police car. Filmed on location in Nova Scotia, the story is set in the fictitious town of Paradise, Massachusetts. Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt is the eighth in a series of nine television films based on the characters of Parker's Jesse Stone novels. The film first aired on the CBS television network on May 20, 2012.
Synopsis
Jesse Stone still misses the Paradise, Massachusetts police chief position, which he lost because the current town council president, Carter Hansen (Jeremy Akerman), wanted his son-in-law, William Butler (Jeff Geddis), to have the job. A suspicious police cruiser explosion kills chief Butler and officer DeAngelo (Vito Rezza). Curiously, the former town council president, Hastings "Hasty" Hathaway (Saul Rubinek), appeared to know about the incident before the current town council president was officially notified. Jesse is reinstated as "temp chief" by Hansen and uncovers apparent (but unproved) police corruption involving Butler. Jesse discovers a possible clue: the characters "2AH10" written on the April 24 page of Butler's desk calendar.Actors
Tom Selleck
(Jesse Stone)
Kathy Baker
(Rose Gammon)
Kohl Sudduth
(Luther 'Suitcase' Simpson)
Gloria Reuben
(Thelma Gleffey)
Stephen McHattie
(Commander Healy)
Jesse Stone
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