D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear
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 USA Network promotional image for the D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear T.V. movie based on the sniper attacks |
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| Directed by | Tom McLoughlin |
| Produced by | Orly Adelson Jonathan Eskenas Tracey Jeffrey |
| Written by | Dave Erickson |
| Starring | Charles S. Dutton Jay O. Sanders Bobby Hosea Trent Cameron Helen Shaver |
| Music by | Mark Snow |
| Cinematography | Mark Wareham |
| Editing by | Charles Bornstein |
| Production company | Orly Adelson Productions |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Original channel | USA Network |
| Release date | October 17, 2003 (United States) April 7, 2004 (Italy) April 20, 2004 (Netherlands) April 28, 2004 (Spain) May 26, 2004 (Hungary) October 7, 2004 (Iceland) January 6, 2007 (Sweden) August 3, 2007 (France) |
| Running time | 85 minutes |
D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear (also known as Sniper: 23 Days of Fear in Washington D.C.) is a 2003 T.V. movie created by USA Network based on the Beltway sniper attacks of 2002.
[edit] Plot
The movie chronicles the period when John Allen Muhammad (played by Bobby Hosea) and Lee Boyd Malvo (played by Trent Cameron) went on a serial shooting spree in October 2002 in Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Maryland, all parts of the Washington Metropolitan Area, the entire area of which was held in a grip of terror.
The protagonist is Charles Moose (played by Charles S. Dutton), the chief of the Montgomery County Police Department in Montgomery County, Maryland, who is one of those heading the efforts to track down the snipers.
Unable to give anything but small pieces of information at various press conferences held during the 23 dark days, Moose finds himself vilified and derided in many corners as ineffectual and incompetent. Indeed, quite a few newspapers outside the area targeted by snipers came right out and called for Moose's resignation. But the chief's dogged persistence ultimately paid off and — in the sort of twist that a professional writer of thrillers might dismiss as inconceivable — the two men arrested for the carnage turned out to be the archetypal "least likely suspects."
[edit] Release
D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear originally aired on the USA Network on October 17, 2003, just as John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo's murder trials were getting underway.)
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