Murder At 1600 (DVD)

>>>> Synopsis After a woman is discovered murdered in the toilets at the White House, tough talking Washington police detective Harlan Regis (Wesley Snipes) is assigned to the case. Struggling to break through the barriers placed in his way by the White House’s head of the Secret Service, Spikings (Daniel Benzali), Regis finds his every move shadowed by one of his agents, Nina Chance (Diane Lane). When a White House cleaner is suddenly charged with the murder, Regis believes an innocent man is being set up to cover a much darker truth. With the aid of his Secret Service shadow, who also believes that the cleaner is innocent, they delve deeper to ...

One Friday night, homicide detective Harlan Regis is called to the most famous address in the USA, if not the world, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, aka The White House. While wiping the floor of the ladies’ toilets, a cleaner finds the body of a White House employee murdered. Regis wants to know who killed the woman and why. The security agents within the White House are not so keen on giving up their knowledge of what could or might have happened that Friday night – after all, the son of the president could be the prime suspect. It seems that a murder in the White House is not something the president needs just now. He has already enough on his plate ...

This film is a thriller with mild political connections. The 1600 in the title is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, more commonly known as The White House. Wesley Snipes stars as Detective Regis, a homicide detective in Washington DC, and he is called in to investigate a murder in The Whitehouse, after a woman's body is found in the toilets by a cleaner. The body is later found to be an intern called Carla Town, who had been having an affair with the son of the President. The Neal family are in The White House, and Jack Neal is President, with Tate Donovan playing his son Kyle Neal. Detective Regis is beaten to the crime scene ...