Exiled: A Law & Order Movie
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| Directed by | Jean de Segonzac |
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| Produced by | John L. Roman |
| Written by | Chris Noth (story) Charles Kipps (story & screenplay) |
| Starring | Chris Noth Dabney Coleman Dana Eskelson John Fiore Dann Florek Paul Guilfoyle Ice-T Costas Mandylor Tony Musante Nicole Ari Parker Benjamin Bratt S. Epatha Merkerson with Jerry Orbach and Sam Waterston |
| Music by | Mike Post |
| Editing by | Cindy Mollo |
| Distributed by | Universal Television |
| Release date(s) | November 8, 1998 |
| Running time | 120 min. |
| Language | English |
Exiled: A Law & Order Movie is a 1998 television movie that is based on the Law & Order television series; it originally aired on NBC. Written by Charles Kipps and Chris Noth (a Law & Order original cast member, until producers ousted him in 1995 only to bring him back in 2005 for Law and Order: Criminal Intent after his success as a regular on HBO's Sex and the City), the movie revolves around Noth's Det. Mike Logan character. Kipps received a 1999 Edgar Award for his screenplay.
[edit] Plot
The movie begins three years after Logan's last major act in the Law & Order storyline continuity (the 1995 episode in which he punches a corrupt politician/murder suspect on the courthouse steps, in front of reporters). As bureaucratic payback for assaulting a public official, Logan's career lies in ruins. Although kept on the force, he has been demoted and "administratively re-assigned" to port patrol duty on Staten Island -- the NYPD career graveyard. While struggling to cope with feelings of resentment and isolation, fate offers him a chance at redemption.
From here, the movie turns into a whodunit, in largely the same style as a late-1990s L&O episode. A forgotten murder case unexpectedly drifts Logan's way. The case may uncover a dirty-cop conspiracy (ultimately leading back to the very precinct that banished him), and his port patrol commanding officer repeatedly orders him to leave the case to the NYPD "real detectives." Logan sees solving the case as the long hoped-for chance to resurrect his career, and get re-instated as a detective.
Logan (a ladies' man in the original Law & Order) also becomes romantically involved with the victim's relative. Soon Logan must choose between one woman's feelings for him, and doing whatever it takes to regain the only thing he's ever loved: being an NYPD detective.
[edit] Cast
- Chris Noth as Det. Mike Logan
- Dabney Coleman as Lt. Kevin Stolper
- Dana Eskelson as Det. Frankie Silvera
- John Fiore as Det. Tony Profaci
- Dann Florek as Capt. Don Cragen
- Paul Guilfoyle as Det. Sammy Kurtz
- Ice-T as Seymour Stockton
- Costas Mandylor as Gianni Uzielli
- Tony Musante as Don Giancarlo Uzielli
- Nicole Ari Parker as Georgeanne Taylor
- Benjamin Bratt as Det. Rey Curtis
- S. Epatha Merkerson as Lt. Anita Van Buren
- Jerry Orbach as Det. Lennie Briscoe
- Sam Waterston as Jack McCoy
Rapper-turned-actor Ice-T, who appears in this film as a pimp, would later join the cast of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
Dana Eskelson playing Logan's partner, was later featured as a suspect in Season 3 of Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Eskelson was also featured in two episodes of Law and Order: SVU, once as a rape victim in Season 4 and again as the mother of a victim of molestation in Season 7.
Paul Guilfoyle of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation fame plays one of the detectives working under Van Buren. Guilfoyle had previously appeared in the pilot episode of Law & Order, Everybody's Favorite Bagman, as murder suspect Tony Scalisi.
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