Exiled: A Law & Order Movie

Exiled: A Law & Order Movie
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Genre	Police procedural
Creator	Dick Wolf
Directed by	Jean de Segonzac
Produced by	John L. Roman
Written by	Chris Noth Charles Kipps
Starring	Chris Noth Dabney Coleman Dana Eskelson John Fiore Dann Florek
Music by	Mike Post
Editing by	Cindy Mollo
Country	United States
Language	English
Original channel	NBC
Release date	8 November 1998
Running time	120 minutes

Exiled: A Law & Order Movie is a 1998 television film that is based on the Law & Order police procedural and legal drama television series; it originally aired on NBC. Written by Charles Kipps and Chris Noth, the movie revolves around Noth's Det. Mike Logan character. Kipps received a 1999 Edgar Award for his screenplay.

Plot

The movie begins three years after Logan's last major act in the Law & Order episode, "Pride" (1995.) At the end of the episode, Logan hits a corrupt, homophobic politician on the courthouse steps, in front of reporters, after the man has just escaped a murder conviction. Logan's career now lies in ruins; although kept on the force, he has been "administratively re-assigned" to the Domestic Disputes Department on Staten Island — the NYPD career graveyard. While he struggles 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 27th Precinct, the very precinct that banished him), and his commanding officer repeatedly orders him to leave the case to the "real detectives" in the NYPD. Logan sees solving the case as the long hoped-for chance to resurrect his career, and get re-instated as a homicide detective.

Logan 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 a NYPD homicide detective.

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 "Kingston" 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
• Leslie Hendrix as Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers

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 as Det. Fin Tutuola.

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 & Order: Special Victims Unit, 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.

Dabney Coleman, playing Logan's boss Lt. Stolper, later appeared in a 2009 "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" episode, "Snatched", as Frank Hager, a career criminal.

DVD release

Universal Studios Home Entertainment released this tile on a region 0 DVD in 2011. It was not included in 'Law & Order: The Complete Series', a 149-DVD boxed set released on region 1 DVD on November 8, 2011.

External links

• Exiled: A Law & Order Movie at the Internet Movie Database