Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For
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Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For

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Duration:
95 min
Genres:
Mystery
IMDB rate:
6.9
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 2000-05-18
Filming Locations: Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel - 7000 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
Cast
Actor
Character
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
Matt Rolands
Jay Acovone
Lt. Det. Bob Mankowski
Santiago Douglas
John Mendoza
Kathy Evison
Peggy Ryan
Dan Martin
Paul Neilly - FBI Agent
Scott Burkholder
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
Don Snell
Aaron Clemson
Teri Noel
Young Woman #1
Blair Hickey
Desk Clerk
Nick Jaine
Waiter
Maura M. Knowles
Young Woman #2
Stephen O'Mahoney
Doorman (as Stephen O Mahoney)
Ilia Volok
Man
Strahil Goodman
Soldier
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Trivia
Bill Layton had been the cameraman operating the master lens under the Director of Photography on the "Murder, She Wrote" series, "Mrs. Santa Claus" and the first MSW MOW. This was Bill Layton's first MSW credit as Director of Photography.
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The first "Murder, She Wrote" Movie of The Week, "South By Southwest", filmed in 1997, after the series had been canceled in April 1996, by Les Moonvies-CBS TV, fulfilled the first of the four contracted MOW's "settlement" with Angela and Peter Shaw's Corymore Productions. Not happy with CBS axing their twelve year MSW popular series, neither were the couple anxious to go into immediate production for another two hour project. Plus each script proposal had to be approved by the network program division. CBS TV forced Corymore to fulfill the second MOW project after a two and a half years hiatus. Assembling the nucleus production team from the canceled series, the crew were presented with the task of prepping the two hour film within an extreme limited prep period of four weeks! Which included scouting locations, casting, costuming, designing, and for construction/painting of stage sets, to be built at Universal Studios. Asking the Production Designer Hub Braden "if it could be done?" His reply, "it just takes a blank check and an unlimited bank account full of money. Just give us a GO!"
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The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, located in Hollywood across from the original Grauman Chinese Theatre, was the film'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. The set decorator Don 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.
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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.
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Quotes
Jessica Fletcher: [voice only] After you were shot I went out to examine the area where the shooter would've been standing. On inspection I found a bullet hole in a tree that was on a direct line to my window, meaning a bullet had not been fired *in* from the garden it had been fired *out* from the room. Then when the Police found the bullet in the wall of my room and it matched the one that killed Yuri, I knew. I was hoping that somehow, some way it wasn't you. That perhaps I'd misread the clues or you were being set up to take the blame. One thing finally changed that, and I feel confident that when forensics checks the powder burns on your shirt, they'll realise only you could've fired that gun. Everything about the murder pointed to premeditation, which meant that the murder must have had something to do with the contents of his previous novel. Yuri killed your song didn't he?
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Woman: I don't understand how you could do it. I mean you said yourself he was your friend. The guy he murdered was probably a killer several times over, a lot worse than your friend. So why do it?
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Warren Pierce: [into the tape recorder] Officially for the record I'm giving you this confession. But Patricia here has first rights of publication of the story. Told you I'd get you that big break. Always keep my promises.
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