Jesse Stone: Sea Change

Best So Far
The latest DVD dramatization of Robert B. Parker's Jesse Stone novels starring Tom Selleck has everything: Action, drama, mystery, humor, romance and pathos. For me, it is the best of the series thus far.

Sea Change challenges mystery and thriller lovers alike but will also delight those viewers who love wonderful, three-dimensional characterizations and first-class film making.

Frankly, each of these made-for-TV productions of the Jesse Stone books have had the look and feel of a movie.

Selleck is perfect as the brilliant Police Chief of a small town in New England, aptly named 'Paradise' in Massachusetts, who fled the big city which had brought him great professional success along with stress and a failed marriage.

He's wounded and lonely, and struggles with alchoholism. Much like Sherlock Holmes who sometimes took cocaine when he didn't have a case to challenge his sharp mental faculities, Stone has to have something 'important' to...

Sea Change Is Great TV
This is Tom Selleck's fourth outing as Robert Parker's Jesse Stone. In this made for TV movie, small-town sheriff Stone struggles to solve a rape case, opens a cold case and fights his alcoholism. Rarely does an actor play a character as well as Selleck plays Jesse Stone. The movie is excellent quality -- great cinematography and music, wonderful direction and performances. Get all the Stone telemovies: Sea Change, Jesse Stone - Night Passage, Jesse Stone - Death In Paradise, and my favorite of all (the first of these movies), Stone Cold. Seldom do we get network television of this quality today. Highly, highly recommended.

Selleck Scores Again, in Latest 'Stone' Film!
"Jesse Stone: Sea Change", the fourth TV adaptation of Robert B. Parker's novels of the alcoholic police chief of a tiny coastal town, again offers a terrific little character study/mystery, benefiting enormously from Tom Selleck's grizzled charm and integrity in the lead.

Things are slow in Paradise, and with Stone's ex asking him to quit calling (as she is "seeing someone"), he finds himself sliding back to the bottle, alarming his friends and the City Council. Deciding to reopen an unsolved murder case from a dozen years earlier, to pass the time, his experience as an ex-L.A. cop soon offers clues that the case was mismanaged, and was far more than a simple bank hostage shooting. Then a father drags his pretty daughter in, claiming she had been raped by a contestant in the upcoming regatta, a charge that Stone is suspicious of, as the girl's behavior indicates a far different scenario. The two cases form the crux of a very interesting few days in Stone's life...

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