Murder at 1600 "Murder at 1600" received generally poor reviews from critics, as it holds a 33% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 33 reviews. Murder at 1600 Murder at 1600 is a 1997 American thriller film directed by Dwight H. Little. The film stars Wesley Snipes and Diane Lane. The 1600 in the title refers to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the address of the White House. In a restroom in the White House in Washington, D.C., a janitor finds White House secretary Carla Town dead. Metropolitan Police homicide Detective Harlan Regis, whose apartment house is awaiting demolition in favor of a parking lot,
Virginia Avenue Virginia Avenue Virginia Avenue is a street in the Northwest, Southwest, and Southeast quadrants of Washington, D.C. Like other state-named streets in Washington, it diagonally crosses the grid pattern formed by lettered (east-west) and numbered (north-south) streets. Many famous landmarks are adjacent to Virginia Avenue, including the Watergate complex, George Washington University's Hall on Virginia Avenue (which, formerly branded as a Howard Johnson's hotel, served as the lookout point for the Watergate break-in in 1972), the Pan-American Health Organization, the Harry S. Truman Building (Department of State headquarters), the Main Interior Building (Department of the Interior headquarters), the John F.