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Murder in Mississippi Directed by Roger Young Produced by David L. Wolper Written by Stanley Weiser Starring Tom Hulce
Blair Underwood
Jennifer GreyMusic by Mason K. Daring
Elmer Bernstein
(uncredited score
withdrawn)Distributed by Warner Bros. Television Release date(s) February 5, 1990 Running time 96 min. Country U.S.A. Language English Murder in Mississippi is a 1990 television movie which dramatized the last weeks of civil rights activists Michael "Mickey" Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney, and the events leading up to their disappearance and subsequent murder in the summer of 1964. It starred Tom Hulce as Schwerner, Jennifer Grey as his wife Rita, Blair Underwood as Chaney, and Josh Charles as Goodman. Hulce received a nomination for Best Actor in a TV Miniseries at the 1990 Golden Globes.
As a historical docudrama, Murder in Mississippi precedes the storylines of both 1975's Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan and 1988's Mississippi Burning.
Murder in Mississippi is also the title of a Norman Rockwell painting, depicting the same events.
Selected cast
- Tom Hulce as Michael Schwerner
- Blair Underwood as James Chaney
- Jennifer Grey as Rita Schwerner
- Josh Charles as Andrew Goodman
- CCH Pounder as Fannie Lee Chaney
- Walton Goggins as Lyle
External links
- Murder in Mississippi at the Internet Movie Database
- Murder in Mississippi at AllRovi
Films directed by Roger Young 1980s Lassiter (1984) · Gulag (1985) · Love Among Thieves (1987) · The Squeeze (1987) · The Bourne Identity (1988)1990s Murder in Mississippi (1990) · Getting Gotti (1994) · Joseph (1995) · A Knight in Camelot (1998) · Kiss the Sky (1999) · Jesus (1999)2000s The Thin Blue Lie (2000) · Dracula (2002) · Imperium: Augustus (2003) · The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story (2004) · Hercules (2005)Categories:- 1990 television films
- American television films
- English-language films
- 1990s drama films
- Films directed by Roger Young
- Films set in the 1960s
- Films set in Mississippi
- U.S. Civil Rights Movement in television
- Television film stubs
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