Murder in Mississippi

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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Music by	Mason K. Daring Elmer Bernstein (uncredited score withdrawn)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
Producers	Mark Wolper (co-executive producer)
Cinematography
Editor
Running time	96 minutes
Production company	Warner Bros. Television
Distributor	Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Release
Original network	NBC
Picture format	Color
Audio format	Stereo
Original release	February 5, 1990 (1990-02-05)

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.

Plot[]

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Cast[]

• Tom Hulce as Michael Schwerner
• Blair Underwood as James Chaney
• Jennifer Grey as Rita Schwerner
• Josh Charles as Andrew Goodman
• CCH Pounder as Fannie Lee Chaney
• Andre Braugher as Dennis
• Walton Goggins as Lyle
• Royce D. Applegate as Deputy Winter (based on Cecil Price)
• Scott Lawrence as Matt Suarez
• John Dennis Johnston as Hatchet-Faced Man

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.

See also[]

• Civil rights movement in popular culture
• Neshoba (2010 documentary film)

External links[]

• Murder in Mississippi at IMDb
• Murder in Mississippi at AllMovie

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