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Matthew Wayne "Matt" Shepard (December 1, 1976 – October 12, 1998) was an American student at the University of Wyoming who was beaten, tortured, and left to die near Laramie, Wyoming on the night of October 6, 1998, and died six days later at Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado, on October 12, from severe head injuries.
Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson were arrested shortly after the attack and charged with murder following Shepard's death. Significant media coverage was given to what role Shepard's sexual orientation played in the killing. During McKinney's pretrial and trial, testimony was given that the pair had pretended to be gay in order to gain Shepard's trust in order to rob him. McKinney's prosecutor argued the murder was premeditated and driven by greed, while McKinney's defense counsel argued that McKinney had only intended to rob Shepard, but had killed him in a rage when Shepard made a sexual advance. McKinney's girlfriend told police that he had been motivated by anti-gay sentiment, but later recanted her statement, saying that she had lied because she thought it would help him. Both McKinney and Henderson were convicted of the murder and each sentenced to two consecutive life sentences.
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Actors: Sam Waterston (actor), Goldie Hawn (producer), Mychael Danna (composer), Jeff Danna (composer), Roger Spottiswoode (director), Scott Wickware (actor), Stockard Channing (actress), Wendy Crewson (actress), Richard Blackburn (actor), Jim Codrington (actor), Judah Katz (actor), Dominique Fortin (editor), Peter Sussman (producer), Neale Joudrie (miscellaneous crew), Don Bachmann (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: In 1998, a young gay man by the name of Matthew Shepard was robbed, viciously beaten and left tied to a fence to die. Although he was soon found by the police and hospitalized, he soon expired. This film recounts the events after the conviction of the two men responsible for this hate motivated murder. Matthew's parents, though satisfied by the conviction, are finding the sentencing phase of the trial more difficult. The parents initially want to request the death penalty for their son's murderers, but the mother, Judy, starts to reconsider. As they struggle with their decision, they decide to reexamine the life of their son and rediscover his personality, his struggle to accept his homosexual sexual orientation as a natural part of his being and above all, his generous humanity to others. All of this leads the parents to appeal to the court the way their son would have wanted, not out of vengeance but to represent best of what their son was and the tragedy of his loss.
Keywords: based-on-true-story, beaten-to-death, beating, character-name-in-title, death, death-of-hero, gay-bashing, gay-hero, gay-interest, gay-lead-characterActors: Kevin McNulty (actor), Timothy Webber (actor), Brendan Fletcher (actor), Lawrence Bender (producer), Wendy Partridge (costume designer), Samuel D. Pollard (producer), Ian Somerhalder (actor), Daniel Licht (composer), Ken Roberts (actor), Gabrielle Miller (actress), Abraham Fraser (miscellaneous crew), Matthew Currie Holmes (actor), Jane Sowerby (actress), Amanda Fuller (actress), Busy Philipps (actress),
Plot: Fact-based drama centering on the brutal 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, an openly homosexual college student in Wyoming, by two homophobic, trouble-making teens and their co-conspirator girlfriends which prompted an outcry of support for the Shepard family and tougher hate-crime laws by liberal activists, but also support for Matthew's killers by religious leaders and homophobic activists.
Keywords: based-on-true-story, gay-interest, hate-crime, homophobia, homosexual, matthew-shepard, murder, wyoming, youth