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The Matthew Shepard Story

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Genre:
Drama
Release:
2002
Director:
Roger Spottiswoode
Synopsis: 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), ... Full Synopsis
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Brian Dillard, AMG Review
It was a given that this standard-issue movie of the week would fail to live up to The Laramie Project, the innovative HBO film inspired by the same events. Even so, it's something of an accomplishment that The Matthew Shepard Story is so darn bad. Filled with the sort of pat parallels and slick sanctimony endemic to the genre, the script smooths over the messier details of its subject's life, such ... Full Review
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