Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For (TV Movie 2000)

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Angela Lansbury

Jessica Fletcher

Richard Crenna

Warren Pierce

Robert Mailhouse

Mason Phillips - FBI Agent

Kathryn Morris

Patricia Williams

Steven Culp

William Batsby

Duncan Regehr

Yuri Malenkovich

Alan Fudge

Mack Rolands

Jay Acovone

Lt. Det. Bob Mankowski

Douglas Santiago

John Mendoza
(as Santiago Douglas)

Kathy Evison

Penny Ryan

Dan Martin

Paul Neeley - FBI Agent

Scott Burkholder

Man with Bag

Daniel Dae Kim

Everett Jang

Henri Lubatti

Feyoder

J. Patrick McCormack

Joseph Brennan

Eva Frajko

Woman
(as Eva Frajk)

Anastasia Barzee

Lorraine

Richard Anthony Crenna

Brent

Director
- Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writer
- J. Michael Straczynski
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Trivia
The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, located in Hollywood across from the original Grauman Chinese Theatre, was this movie's hotel lobby interiors. The hotel check-in desk was positioned in the West side of the lobby, opposite the Hotel's actual main desk check-in. Primarily to provide little interruption, unnecessary actual hotel guest activity during the filming process. Set Decorator Donald J. Remacle switched and added furniture, tables, lamps and plants to the existing lobby. The hotel rooms and corridors were built on-stage at Universal Studios.

Goofs
While Jessica is reading Yuri's manuscript, Warren knocks on her door and the pages in the book indicate that she is almost finished reading it. But when the camera changes to look over her shoulder, the pages in the book show that she is now back near the beginning.

Quotes
[last lines]
Jessica Fletcher: But because I am a romantic, I still believe that we have the potential to be nobler than we know and better than we think. That the darkness I've seen is only a *shadow* on the *potential* of the human heart. Warren, in his own way, was a romantic, made hard by the world around him, until he finally made a tragic mistake. He walked away from his own moral compass. So I urge you to keep your heart's compass on the true north of your dreams. Be free to be romantics, to reject cynicism, to believe that good will prevail and that those who do wrong will be punished, because, when the hour of the wolf comes, as it comes to all of us sooner or later, those are the things that sustain us. Thank you and goodnight.
[everyone in the conference room stands up and applauds]

Connections
Followed by Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man (2001)

Following in the footsteps of the TV show, this TV movie did not disappoint. The characters, most especially J.B. Fletcher were well thought out and the acting was good. It was nice to see the return of one of the greatest television shows of all time, and it came back with a story symbolizing what made Murder, She Wrote so good. The people involved didn't see a TV movie with a bigger budget as an opportunity to create more action and special effects, the true reasons for Murder, She Wrotes popularity: the characters and stories (involvement of the viewer in solving the crime) remained in the fore-ground. It truly was a story, an event, a show to die for. (In the literal sense, of course.)