The Matthew Shepard story / an Alliance Atlantis production ; produced in association with CTV ; Cosmic Entertainment ; producer, Clara George ; directed by Roger Spottiswoode ; written by John Wierick & Jacob Krueger.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 90029 | Echo Bridge Home EntertainmentPublication details: [La Crosse, Wis.] : Echo Bridge Home Entertainment, 2010.Description: 1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- Director of photography, John Bartley ; film editor, Dominique Fortin ; composers, Jeff Danna, Mychael Danna.
- Emmy Award.
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Main Library | DVD | DRAMA Matthew | Available | 33111009051109 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This fact-based TV movie explores the story behind the infamous Matthew Shepard gay-bashing case, in which a Laramie, WY, college student was brutally murdered by a pair of local boys in 1998. Sam Waterson and Stockard Channing star as Judy and Dennis Shepard, the parents whose agonizing decision over whether to ask for the death penalty for one of their son's killers provides the movie with its dramatic structure. Beginning with a slow-motion re-creation of the attack on young Matthew (Shane Meier), the script moves back in time to encompass the boy's troubled adolescent romance with another boarding-school student, his previous attack at the hands of a gang while on vacation, and his tentative shot at self-actualization among like-minded friends. These flashbacks are interspersed with the central drama, in which Shepard's parents sift through their son's belongings and slowly come to a surprising decision about what to say at his killer's trial. The Matthew Shepard Story premiered on NBC on March 12, 2002, a week after HBO's The Laramie Project first aired. ~ Brian J. Dillard, Rovi
DVD.
Stockard Channing, Shane Meier, Wendy Crewson, Kristen Thomson, Joseph Ziegler, Yani Gellman, and Sam Waterston.
Director of photography, John Bartley ; film editor, Dominique Fortin ; composers, Jeff Danna, Mychael Danna.
"©2001 Tolerance Productions Inc., an Alliance Atlantis company"--End credits.
A made-for-television motion picture originally broadcast on NBC, March 16, 2002.
"Not rated. Adult situations, violence, profanity"--Container.
Emmy Award.
"In a senseless act of hatred, openly gay college student Matthew Shepard was murdered in 1998. This critically-acclaimed, moving film recounts the final days of Matthew's killers' trial -- and the weeks leading to Matthew's death -- with unnerving detail"--Container.