The Matthew Shepard Story

Name: The Matthew Shepard Story
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Released: 2002-03-16
Duration: 1 h 32 min
Rating: 5.42
Cast: Stockard Channing, Shane Meier, Wendy Crewson, Kristen Thomson, Joseph Ziegler

Directed by Roger Spottiswoode

Drama TV Movie

20021h 32m5.4

Overview

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. Stockard Channing delivers an unforgettable, Emmy® Award-winning performance as Matthew's grieving mother, Judy, in a story of a murder that moved a nation to action. Also starring Law & Order's Sam Waterston.