Murder in Mississippi

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Music by	Mason K. Daring; Elmer Bernstein; (uncredited score; withdrawn)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(s)	English
Production
Executive producer(s)	David L. Wolper; Bernard Sofronski
Producer(s)	Mark Wolper; Tova Laiter (co-executive producer)
Cinematography	Donald M. Morgan
Editor(s)	Benjamin A. Weissman
Running time	96 minutes
Production company(s)	Warner Bros. Television
Distributor	Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Release
Original network	NBC
Picture format	Color
Audio format	Stereo
Original release	February 5, 1990;

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.

Selected cast

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