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Murder at 1600 was one of three 1997 releases dealing with murder in or around the White House. The other two were Absolute Power and The Shadow Conspiracy. Indeed, there were several pictures during the 1990s that dealt heavily with the office of the president. Films ranging from Dave (1993) to Clear and Present Danger (1994) to The American President (1995) made the Oval Office an intriguing place to be. Wesley Snipes earned a living as a telephone installer before breaking into films in 1986. After appearing in the Michael Jackson video "Bad," he was cast as the ganglord in New Jack City (1991).
When Diane Lane was selected to costar with Laurence Olivier in A Little Romance (1979) when she was still a teen-ager. It landed her on the cover of Time magazine, and she went on to star in a trio of Francis Coppola films -- The Outsiders (1983), Rumble Fish (1983) and The Cotton Club (1984). Her movie career never came to fruition as promised, but she brought warmth and a wry sense of humor to her part as a hooker in the outstanding TV miniseries Lonesome Dove in 1989. Some of her recent credits include Vital Signs (1990), Chaplin(1992, as Paulette Goddard), the deadpan My New Gun (1992), Indian Summer (1993), Wild Bill (1995) and Judge Dredd (1995). Lane returned to TV in the 1994 miniseries Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All and as Stella in a 1995 production of A Streetcar Named Desire. She most recently appeared in the blockbuster hit The Perfect Storm (2000), in the tearjerker, My Dog Skip (2000), and the TNT Original The Virginian (2000).
After its April 18, 1997, release, Murder at 1600 grossed about $30 million in American theaters. Kopelson earned the 1986 Best Picture Academy Award® for Platoon (1986). He has been further honored with a Lifetime Achievement in Filmmaking Award from Cinema Expo International, and was named Producer of the Year by the National Association of Theater Owners. In 1994, his production of The Fugitive (1993) was an Academy Award® nominee for Best Picture. Kopelson's films have collectively garnered 17 Academy Award® nominations.
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