Exiled: A Law & Order Movie

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Exiled: A Law & Order Movie
Directed by Jean de Segonzac
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
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
IMDb profile

Law & Order franchise


Original series

Special Victims Unit
Criminal Intent
Trial by Jury

Franchise characters

Conviction
Exiled
Crime & Punishment


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), the movie revolves around Noth's Detective Mike Logan character.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The movie's plot starts 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's 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's "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.

Spoilers end here.

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.

Paul Guilfoyle of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation fame plays one of the detectives working under Van Buren.

Kipps received a 1999 Edgar Award for his screenplay.

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