Murder at 1600
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| Murder at 1600 | |
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 The movie poster for Murder at 1600. |
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| Directed by | Dwight H. Little |
| Produced by | Arnold Kopelson Arnon Milchan |
| Written by | Wayne Beach David Hodgin |
| Starring | Wesley Snipes Diane Lane |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Release date(s) | April 18, 1997 |
| Running time | 107 min. |
| Language | English |
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Murder at 1600 is a 1997 film thriller starring Wesley Snipes, Diane Lane, Dennis Miller, Ronny Cox, Daniel Benzali, and Alan Alda. The 1600 in the title refers to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (the address of the White House).
[edit] Plot
Washington D.C. homicide Detective Harlan Regis (Snipes) is called in when the dead body of a White House Staffer is discovered not far from the Oval Office. Regis sets out to solve the murder. Yet he runs into resistance from the head of the Secret Service White House detail, Nick Spikings (Benzali). To keep Regis from poking his nose in, Spikings assigns agent Nina Chance (Lane) to act as his liaison.
Evidence initially points at President Jack Neil (Cox) or his son Kyle (Tate Donovan), who had been having an affair with the murdered staffer. But Regis suspects there's more involved and he's correct. After an extensive investigation (as well as another murder), he uncovers the real murderer: National Security Advisor Alvin Jordan (Alda). It turns out that Jordan had the staffer killed and set it up to look like Kyle was the murderer. This was done because Jordan did not approve of the president's handling of a North Korean hostage crisis (shades of the Iran Hostage Crisis) and Jordan wanted to force the president to resign and be replaced by one who would go along with Jordan's hawkish beliefs.
Regis and Chance (along with Regis's partner, Detective Stengel (Miller)) sneak into the White House via a secret tunnel. After a gun battle with an assassin in the tunnel, where Stengel is shot in the arm, Regis is captured in the white house by the Secret Service. But he manages to produce evidence that links Jordan to the two murders. Jordan is promptly arrested and draws a gun, wounding (but not killing) Chance. The Secret Service agents return fire, and Jordan is killed. The administration is saved and in the process, Regis manages to make a deal with President Neil to keep his house from being torn down to build a new parking lot for the Interstate Commerce Commission (in the real world, the commission was abolished in 1995).
