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D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear
USA Network promotional image for the D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear T.V. movie based on the sniper attacksDirected by Tom McLoughlin Produced by Orly Adelson
Jonathan Eskenas
Tracey JeffreyWritten by Dave Erickson Starring Charles S. Dutton
Jay O. Sanders
Bobby Hosea
Trent Cameron
Helen ShaverMusic 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.
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."
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.)
External links
Films directed by Tom McLoughlin 1980s 1990s Sometimes They Come Back (1991) · Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story (1992) · Anya's Bell (1999)2000s The Unsaid (2001) · Murder in Greenwich (2002) · D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear (2003) · She's Too Young (2004) · Odd Girl Out (2005) · Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life (2005) · Not Like Everyone Else (2006) · The Staircase Murders (2007) · Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal (2008)Categories:- English-language films
- 2003 television films
- 2004 television films
- 2007 television films
- Films based on actual events
- American television films
- True crime films
- Films set in Maryland
- Films set in Virginia
- Films directed by Tom McLoughlin
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