| Product Summary | | Publisher: HBO | | Format: DVD | | UPC: 00026359189722 | | Buy.com Sku: 40168104 | | Item#: VJ3P43 | | Category Keywords: Murder Social Issues | | Rating: NR |
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| | | When a small town comes face to face with murder, everybody has a tale to tell.
Features: DVD
In October 1988, 21 year-old Mathew Shepard was found savagely beaten, tied to a fence and left to die in Laramie, Wyoming. "The Laramie Project" is the portrait of a town painfully forced to confront itself in the reflective glare of the national spotlight, responding with love, anger, sympathy, support and defiance.
"Worth building an evening around." Los Angeles Times
"Poignant." Wall Street Journal
"Provocative." Chicago Tribune
"Compelling." Entertainment Weekly
Editor's Note
Matthew Shepard became a symbol of the damage caused by hatred and homophobia when his brutal murder became a front page headline across the nation. This cable original movie is based on the Tectonic Theater's play about the incident and was written for the screen and directed by one of the original authors, Moises Kaufman. Kaufman uses a documentary style including interviews with local residents both horrified by the murderers' actions as well as those who are more opposed to homosexuality. A star-studded cast portrays the residents of Laramie, Wyoming including Christina Ricci, Dylan Baker, Peter Fonda, Jeremy Davis, and Jeneane Garofalo.
| Features | Scene Access | | Widescreen And Full Screen Versions | | Audio Commentary With Director Moises Kaufman And Executive Producer Ross Katz | | Interactive Menus |
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Release Information
| | Studio: HBO |
| Release Date: 10/20/2009 |
| Running Time: 96 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2002 | | Catalog ID: 91897 | | UPC: 00026359189722 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
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| | Professional Reviews | Variety
"...Inevitably powerful....Kates' excellent editing maintains a strong sense of narrative momentum..." 02/14/2002 p.49-54Variety
"...Powerful....[The] excellent editing maintains a strong sense of narrative momentum..." 01/14/2002 p.49-54 Sight and Sound
"...[The film] contains affecting performances from a cast that includes Amy Madigan and Peter Fonda..." 08/01/2003 p.68 Total Film
"...A compelling piece of reportage..." 08/01/2003 p.116 Boxoffice Magazine 8 of 10
...Intercutting reenacted interviews with Laramie residents and dramatized scenes of the murder trials with actual news footage from period, Kaufman creates an eerie sense of not only being there at the time of these events but the very night Matthew was killed... And one's heart genuinely aches when a pair of headlights drives through the darkness, coming to rest on the stretch of fence where he was found... - Annlee Ellingson
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