Murder in Mississippi (film)

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Murder in Mississippi
Genre	Crime Drama
Written by	Stanley Weiser
Directed by	Roger Young
Starring	Tom Hulce Blair Underwood Jennifer Grey
Music by	Mason K. Daring Elmer Bernstein (uncredited score withdrawn)
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producers	David L. Wolper Bernard Sofronski
Producer	Mark Wolper
Cinematography	Donald M. Morgan
Editor	Benjamin A. Weissman
Running time	96 minutes
Production company	Warner Bros. Television
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	February 5, 1990 (1990-02-05)

Murder in Mississippi is a 1990 American television film which dramatized the last weeks of civil rights activists Michael "Mickey" Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney, and the events leading up to their disappearance and subsequent murder during Freedom Summer in 1964. It starred Tom Hulce as Schwerner, Jennifer Grey as his wife Rita, Blair Underwood as Chaney, and Josh Charles as Goodman. Hulce received a nomination for Best Actor in a TV Miniseries at the 1990 Golden Globes. The film premiered on February 5, 1990, on NBC.

As a historical docudrama, Murder in Mississippi precedes the storylines of both 1975's Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan and 1988's Mississippi Burning.

Murder in Mississippi is the title of a 1964 Norman Rockwell painting depicting the same events. The painting is also known as Southern Justice.

In 1964, members of the Ku Klux Klan murdered three Civil Rights workers who had traveled to the South to encourage African-American voter registration. The film examines the last three weeks in the lives of the slain activists.

In addition, Murder in Mississippi features an early role of Greg Kinnear, who was a television personality at the time; Kinnear appears at the end as a reporter - also named Greg Kinnear - covering the discovery of the remains of Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman.

Empire wrote, "A TV movie true story with a good grasp on the history and politics of the time. Hulce shows off a fine beatnik beard, his closest black colleague CCH Pounder is properly suspicious of the naive do-gooder to start with and the people they're up against are convincingly vicious throughout. Misleadingly titled (in no way is this a thriller and the murder is right at the end), but otherwise, quite effectively done."^[1]

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