The Matthew Shepard Story (movie)
- User score: 5.8
- Production country: Canada
- Producer: Roger Spottiswoode
- Production companies: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
- Genre: Drama, TV Movie
- Release date: 3/16/2002
- Run time: 92 min.
Movie description
In a senseless act of hatred, openly gay college student Matthew Shepard was murdered in 1998. This critically-acclaimed, moving film recounts the final days of Matthew's killers' trial—and the weeks leading to Matthew's death—with unnerving detail. Stockard Channing delivers an unforgettable, Emmy® Award-winning performance as Matthew's grieving mother, Judy, in a story of a murder that moved a nation to action. Also starring Law & Order's Sam Waterston.
