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Crime, Drama, TV Movie 95 min
Rotten Tomatoes92%IMDb
Everyone carries a piece of the truth.
"The Laramie Project" is set in and around Laramie, Wyoming, in the aftermath of the murder of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard. To create the stage version of "The Laramie Project," the eight-member New York-based Tectonic Theatre Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, recording hours of interviews with the town's citizens over a two-year period.
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If you're at all familiar with the television movie made about the brutal slaughter of Matthew Shepard from 2002, you'll already know why New York's Tectonic Theatre Company descended upon the town of Laramie. Home to just shy of 30,000 citizens, this town has been rocked by the recent homophobic attack on a twenty-one year old man by two young men who pistol whipped him before tying him to a fence in a nearby field and leaving him to die of his wounds and of hypothermia. The actors/writers have decided to theatrically recreate some of this story and so are travelling the length and breadth of the town seeking interviews with the residents - all whilst the town deals with it's own feelings of anger and guilt and whilst their courthouse tries the two men who are accused of perpetrating the crime. The timeline here begins whilst Shepard is still alive - comatose, but still alive, and by using a combination of news actuality and some poignant acting contributions from the likes of Dylan Baker (his doctor) and the usually quite effective Kathleen Chalfant this tries to get into the inner thoughts of a community that is largely, though not exclusively, disgusted by the behaviour of two
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