2009 · drama · crime · tv-movie
Jesse Stone: Thin Ice
Directed by Robert Harmon1h 28m2009
Jesse Stone and Captain Healy are shot during an unauthorized stake-out in Boston. Meanwhile, a cryptic letter sent from Paradise leads the mother of a kidnapped child to Stone. Though her son was declared dead, she hopes he will reopen the case.
Our read: Jesse Stone: Thin Ice (2009) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · crime · tv-movie entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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