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DVD

The Laramie project

Author

Call Number

DVD DRAMA (CEN)

Performers

Christina Ricci, Steve Buscemi, Laura Linney, Summer Phoenix, Peter Fonda, Janeane Garofalo, Amy Madigan ; and many others.

Publication Information

[New York, NY] : HBO Home Video, c2002.

Physical Description

1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

In October 1998, 21 year-old Matthew Shepard was found savagely beaten, tied to a fence and left to die in Laramie, Wyoming. This film is a dramatization of a town forced to confront itself in the reflective glare of the national spotlight, responding with love, anger, sympathy, support, and defiance.

Notes

DVD format ; Dolby digital 5.1 surround sound.

Videodisc release of the 2002 production.

Based on the play by Moisés Kaufman.

Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.

Not rated, but contains adult content.

In English with optional Spanish language soundtrack ; optional subtitles in French, Spanish, or English.

Special features include: Two featurettes ; chapter selection ; cast and director biographies ; documentary: The making of The Laramie project.

Presented in both widescreen (aspect ratio 16:9) and full screen (aspect ratio 4:3) versions.

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