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When a small town comes face to face with murder, everybody has a tale to tell. more
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The true story of an American town in the wake of the murder of Matthew Shepard. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for 4 Primetime Emmys.
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Ask the Flying Monkey! (November 2, 2009)
(From AfterElton.com. 2 November 2009, 5:00 AM, PST)
Pauley Perrette Takes On The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later
(From TVGuide - Breaking News. 24 October 2009, 10:06 AM, PDT)
(From AfterElton.com. 2 November 2009, 5:00 AM, PST)
Pauley Perrette Takes On The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later
(From TVGuide - Breaking News. 24 October 2009, 10:06 AM, PDT)
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A murder in Wyoming
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Kathleen Chalfant | ... | Anonymous Female Rancher |
 | Laura Linney | ... | Sherry Johnson |
 | Peter Fonda | ... | Doctor Cantway |
 | Jeremy Davies | ... | Jedadiah Schultz |
 | Nestor Carbonell | ... | Moises Kaufman |
 | Camryn Manheim | ... | Rebecca Hillicker |
| Andy Paris | ... | Stephen Belber |
 | Grant Varjas | ... | Greg Pierotti (as Grant James Varjas) |
| Kelli Simpkins | ... | Leigh Fondakowski |
 | Clea DuVall | ... | Amanda Gronich |
| Billie McBride | ... | Waitress |
| Bill Christ | ... | Man on Porch |
| Frances Sternhagen | ... | Marge Murray |
 | Michael Emerson | ... | Reverend |
| Margo Martindale | ... | Trish Steger |
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In one scene, Rebecca Hillicker (Camryn Manheim) is directing a rehearsal of a play that Moisés Kaufman (Nestor Carbonell) says he "never gets tired of" (and Hillicker responds, "Yeah, well, try directing it fifty times."). The play is "Our Town" by Thornton Wilder, which won the 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and has been a staple of community, college, and high school theaters ever since. Like "The Laramie Project", "Our Town" is a play about a typical American small town and the impact on that town's citizens of the death of a beloved young person.
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"Live and let live" is, at best, a load of crap. It basically boils down to: 'If I don't tell you I'm a fag, you won't beat the crap out of me'. What kind of solution is that?
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Featured in The 54th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2002) (TV)
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A young gay man brutally killed by two young men trying to make a point about their hatred of homosexuals is the basis of Moises Kaufman's brilliant play seen here a few years ago. On the stage the play is somewhat detached because of the limitations in the text, but as a film, adapted for the screen by Mr. Kaufman, the immediacy of the story is more shocking than in the theater.
"The Laramie Project" is seen in a documentary fashion. The director and his assistants went to Laramie to investigate the incident that caused a world wide uproar because of the savage way Matthew Shepard's death had caused. In recreating the facts, Mr. Kaufman has dramatized the story by having real actors play the different people in town with whom he and his collaborators talked during the days of the research trip.
What comes out about the story is that individually, the citizens of Laramie were as shocked as everyone else was. After all, they considerer themselves as pretty tolerant, so why a horrible tragedy like this could ever happened amongst them? In fact, it only takes a pair of misguided individuals, who think thought they would make a statement by inflicting on the unsuspecting Matthew Shepard a punishment he didn't deserve.
The ensemble cast that play the different parts is an inspired choice. Mr. Kaufman was lucky in amassing such talent that respond so well to his commands. Steve Buscemi, Camryn Manhein, Laura Linney, Amy Madigan, Frances Sternhagen, Christina Ricci, Margo Martindale, Kathleen Chalfant, Terry Kinney, just to name a few, give excellent readings about what really occurred in Laramie.
Ultimately, Mr. Kaufman makes his point by just letting the citizens of Laramie come to terms with the horrible tragedy that shook their town.