Tom Selleck in Jesse Stone: Lost Innocents. Movie Review

 This is a movie in he Jesse Stone series in which Jesse Stone (Tom Selleck) is at unrest over the death of a young woman, Cindy Van Alden (Eileen Boylan) he had befriended, but then lost track of.  Thought of her and what could have been different keep haunting him.  He is determined to find who is responsible.  STone previously had resigned as the chief and is in a point of trying to find himself.  Lots of therapy with Dr. Dix (William Devane) and lots of nightmares.  The young woman had gone through therapy at a rehab mill, which was more interested in getting money than actually helping.  They did not track her after her discharge but did start her on medications, which lead to harder drugs.  An employee who had been fired had a habit of preying on young women and prostituting them.  Such was the case here.  Stone, uses unconventional methods to get this predator off the streets.  

I really like the relationship Stone has with his dog, as well as the nun, Sister Mary John (Kerri Smith) who provides insight, and Gino Fish (William Sadler) who gives him information.

Jesse Stone: Paradise Lost (2015)

 Jesse Stone (Tom Selleck) opens an old case consulting for the Boston Police.  The murder was assumed one of a serial killer's, but that killer denies the murder and doesn't want to take credit.  So Stone goes about investigating, knowing something doesn't seem right.  But the murders have stopped so they must have gotten the right man.  But the fourth murder was carried out in the same way as the first three and the details of the first three were not provided to the public.  Slowly the pieces come together,  the murders were all of prostitutes.  Of course the last was a professional escort.  However the last victim's friend left the escort service, and she is the key.  And some of the file has been deleted.  

This movie is very enjoyable.  I enjoy the Jesse Stone character.  Also in this show (which is the last olf the Jesse Stone movies to date) ary many new and old but all interesting characters.  

Leslie Hope as Lt. Sydney Greenstreet is with Boston PD and gives Stone an opportunity to work as a consultant

Amelia Rose Blaire as Amelia who is the friend of the victim who fights for her life against the murderer

Alex Carter as a Boston detective

Mackenzie Foy as enny O'Neill as a troubled teen that Stone helps

William Devane as the psychologist Stone uses as a sounding board

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Tom Selleck Movie: ***Monte Walsh (2003)

 This is a made for T.V. movie with Tom Selleck as Monte Walsh, a long time cowboy who is struggling through a time when ranches are being taken over Consolidated Corporation.  He plays opposite Countess Martine (Isabella Rossellini) whose relationship is also changing because of the change in economics.  People react differently to change.  The representative of the corporation is Sam Brennan (William Devane).  Righting Joe Hooker (James Gammon) runs he and his horse off a cliff to their deaths. Walsh's partner in cowboying is Chet Rollins (Keith Carradine); but he leaves to get married and become a hardware salesman.   Shorty (George Eads) kills a marshall who has come to arrest him for a past bank robbery.  He then turns to stealing with a small band, and ends up killing Chet.   Shorty never breaks that one hard horse to break.  That horse is sold to a wild west company, but Walsh does ride him and break him.  He is offered a job in the show but declines not wanting to turn on himself.  Shorty has gone bad, rustling cattle.  He is without work.  Walsh catches up to him, but lets him go.  He and a partner confront Chet in town at the hardware store seeking money so they can run.  In the confrontation Shorty shoots Chet with a shot gun killing him.  Walsh is now on his trail.  However he hears his girl is sick.  He tries to go see her.  The Countess dies, probably of tuberculosis.  Shorty confronts him there knowing he would come.  This leads to the final gun battle.  

I found this film entertaining.  It was a bit slow at first for a western but overall it was good.  It also added the psychological piece of how people deal with change.  It was produced by Tom Selleck.  

Tom Selleck TV Movie Review: ***^Jesse Stone: Sea Change (2007)

Stone's (Tom Selleck) therapist (William Devane) notices that Stone drinks less when he is working a case.  Since things are slow, he suggests Stone work on a cold case.  So he decides to do so, working a case from a bank robbery a few years before in which a teller was taken hostage, and murdered.  One of the officers, Rose (Kathy Baker) was there when the body was first discovered, and remembers vomiting.  Stone digs up the same place, but digs deeper and finds some clothes.  

These serets him on a new investigation.  The mother identified the body, but then had a stroke a few days later.  Dental records or finger prints were not used in the identification.  Stone visits the family, and discovers the mother had a stroke and is non verbal.  The sister reports she was in California when it happened and returned home to care for her mother.  

Bit by bit, Stone pieces together the evidence.  The only hitch is that the mob at the bank, where they were wondering money, wants there money back and begin to go after Stone in an effort to get it; a mobster whose brother was previously killed by police has a vendetta for Stone.  Stone discovers what happened, the bank robber was shot in the escape, and was actually the teller's sister.  When she dies of her wounds, the teller switches clothes and the teller is presumed dead not the sister.  However Stone sees no benefit to pursuing this.  The money has gone for care of the mother and if the sister is arrested, no one would be available to care for the mother.  

One last attempt by the brother of the mobster end poorly for him.

TV Movie Review: Jesse Stone: Benefit of a Doubt (2012)

 Tom Selleck continues as Jesse Stone.  In this movie Jesse Stone starts as a temporary recluse, however when his police chief replacement and police officer from Paradise get blown up, he is hired back as the police chief.  He works with a Captain of state police, Captain Healy (Stephen McHattie) but mostly he investigates alone as the other officers have quit, or were killed.  His receptionist has also quit as the police force has been in turmoil.  The prime suspect, a known criminal Gino Fish (William Sadler) turns out not to be, but the break through comes when Stone realizes Fish has a boss.  It is just a bit before he figures ut who that boss is.  

However Stone is too slow, and he, Hasty (Saul Rubinek) is just ahead of him in getting away.  However the rear guard, who was to kill Stone ed up in a big gun battle, with Stone coming out on top.

The psychiatrist, Dr. Dix (William Devane) plays a sounding board for Stone.  The actor was also in Magnum P.I.

I really don't find much by way of moral theme in the Jesse Stone movies; but I like the characters and the action.