Murder in Mississippi (1990)
February 5, 1990Release Date
Murder in Mississippi (1990)
February 5, 1990Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Tom Hulce
Mickey Schwerner
Jennifer Grey
Rita Schwerner
Blair Underwood
James Chaney
CCH Pounder
Fannie Lee Chaney
Andre Braugher
Dennis
Josh Charles
Andrew Goodman
Roger Young
Director
Stanley Weiser
Writer
Walton Goggins
Lyle
Ben Stein
Writer
Greg Kinnear
News reporter
Mark Wolper
Producer
John Dennis Johnston
Hatchet-Faced Man
Mason Daring
Composer
Donzaleigh Abernathy
Sue
Donald M. Morgan
Cinematographer
Details.
Wiki.
Murder in Mississippi is a 1990 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.
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.