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The Laramie Project (2002) |
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96
minutes
Rated: NR
Country: US
Studio: HBO
Cast: Christina Ricci, Steve
Buscemi, Laura Linney, Summer
Phoenix, Clea DuVall, Peter Fonda,
Janeane Garofalo, Bill Irwin, Joshua
Jackson, Amy Madigan, Camryn
Manheim, Mark Webber
Director/Screenwriter: Moises
Kaufman |
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The brutal attack on Matthew Shepard
was the kind of wakeup call a
society doesn't get very often. It
triggered an avalanche of media, a
kind of national deathwatch until
Shepard died five days later. THE
LARAMIE PROJECT is the response of
one man, playwright Moisés Kaufman,
and his colleagues at the Tectonic
Theater Project, who went to
Laramie, Wyoming, and conducted more
than 200 interviews with townspeople
and officials. The result is this
inquiry into hate and the thoughts
and feelings of an American
community. As one local states,
Laramie became instantly notorious,
"like Waco or Jasper." But The
Laramie Project is not an exercise
in self-righteous condemnation. It
merely attempts to come to terms
with what happened. It's a film,
based on the play by the troupe,
that presents the details of the
slaying as revealed by those closest
to it, and the truth lies in the
details. It's a film about
homophobia across the nation, but as
one woman deftly points out, "Honey,
it's still about Laramie." |
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