American Tragedy

TV Movie
2000
PG-13
2h 50m

IMDb RATING

5.4/10

253

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Crime Drama

Johnnie Cochran defends O.J. Simpson who is on trial for his wife's murder.Johnnie Cochran defends O.J. Simpson who is on trial for his wife's murder.Johnnie Cochran defends O.J. Simpson who is on trial for his wife's murder.

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IMDb RATING

5.4/10

253

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win & 3 nominations

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Trivia
Ron Silver - who plays Robert Shapiro in this project - previously played another member of O.J.'s defense team. Silver played Alan Dershowitz in Reversal of Fortune (1990), a movie that doesn't involve O.J.

Alternate versions
There is a 100 min TV Movie version. The first 20 minutes of this version is a collection of very short scenes cut from the longer first half of the movie.

Connections
Featured in The 58th Annual Golden Globe Awards 2001 (2001)

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Interesting idea

The idea of taking an excellent cast and fitting them into images of the real trial of O.J. Simpson is interesting. However, I think people are tired of the story. After all, the whole thing played out like a soap opera on TV for seemingly forever.

But the look at how things were behind the real TV scenes is intriguing, and depicting OJ as megalomaniac who has lost his grip on reality explains a great deal about the case.