American Tragedy (film)

American Tragedy
Based on	American Tragedy: The Uncensored Story of the Simpson Defense by Lawrence Schiller and James Willwerth
Written by	Norman Mailer
Directed by	Lawrence Schiller
Starring	Ving Rhames Ron Silver Bruno Kirby Raymond Forchion Christopher Plummer Richard Cox
Music by	Bill Conti
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Producers	Lawrence Schiller Lynn Raynor
Cinematography	Bruce Surtees
Editors	Katina Zinner Peter Zinner
Running time	170 minutes
Original release
Network	CBS
Release	November 12, 2000 (2000-11-12)

American Tragedy is a 2000 television film broadcast on CBS from November 12, 2000 to November 15, 2000, that is based on the O. J. Simpson murder case for the 1994 murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman. Ving Rhames starred as defense attorney Johnnie Cochran. It was directed by Lawrence Schiller, and the screenplay was adapted from Schiller's book, American Tragedy: The Uncensored Story of the Simpson Defense, by novelist Norman Mailer, who had previously collaborated with Schiller on The Executioner's Song.^[1] It was produced by Fox Television Studios. Mailer publicly criticized CBS for its promotion of the miniseries, which used ads that focused on the fact that Simpson tried unsuccessfully to have the courts block its broadcast.^[2] It won a Satellite Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.^[3]

Cast

Ving Rhames as Johnnie Cochran
Ron Silver as Robert Shapiro
Bruno Kirby as Barry Scheck
Darryl Alan Reed as Carl Douglas
Nicholas Pryor as Gerry Uelman
Robert LuPone as Robert Kardashian
Ruben Santiago-Hudson as Christopher Darden
Diana LaMar as Marcia Clark
Christopher Plummer as F. Lee Bailey
Richard Cox as Alan Dershowitz
Raymond Forchion as O. J. Simpson
Clyde Kusatsu as Judge Lance Ito

References

^ Tucker, Ken (November 10, 2000). "TV Review: American Tragedy". Entertainment Weekly.
^ Gay, Jason (November 27, 2000). "Norman Mailer to CBS: You Blew It!". The New York Observer.
^ "American Tragedy (2000 TV Movie) — Awards". Internet Movie Database.

External links

American Tragedy at IMDb

v t e Norman Mailer
Fiction	The Naked and the Dead Barbary Shore The Deer Park An American Dream The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer Why Are We in Vietnam? A Transit to Narcissus The Executioner's Song Of Women and Their Elegance Ancient Evenings Tough Guys Don't Dance Harlot's Ghost The Gospel According to the Son The Castle in the Forest
Nonfiction	The White Negro Advertisements for Myself "Superman Comes to the Supermarket" "In the Red Light" The Presidential Papers Cannibals and Christians The Bullfight The Armies of the Night The Idol and the Octopus Miami and the Siege of Chicago Of a Fire on the Moon King of the Hill The Prisoner of Sex Existential Errands St. George and The Godfather The Faith of Graffiti The Fight Genius and Lust Of a Small and Modest Malignancy, Wicked and Bristling with Dots Pieces and Pontifications The Spooky Art Why Are We At War?
Biography	Marilyn: A Biography Oswald's Tale Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man
Stories	"The Time of Her Time" "The Man Who Studied Yoga"
Letters	Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream, 1963-1969 The Selected Letters of Norman Mailer
Film	Beyond the Law Wild 90 Maidstone Town Bloody Hall Tough Guys Don't Dance
Teleplays	The Executioner's Song American Tragedy Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story
Other	Strawhead (play) The Deer Park (play) Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters) (poetry) Some Honorable Men (anthology) The Time of Our Time (anthology) Modest Gifts (poems and drawings) The Big Empty (conversations) On God (conversations) Lipton’s: A Marijuana Journal (journal)
Film and TV adaptations	The Naked and the Dead An American Dream Marilyn: The Untold Story
Related	Adele Morales (second wife) Jeanne Campbell (third wife) Beverly Bentley (fourth wife) Norris Church Mailer (wife) Kate Mailer (daughter) Michael Mailer (son) Stephen Mailer (son) John Buffalo Mailer (son) Norman Mailer Prize Stabbing of Adele Morales by Norman Mailer The Last Party New York City: the 51st State In the Belly of the Beast J. Michael Lennon (biographer) The Norman Mailer Society Norman Mailer bibliography The Mailer Review River of Fundament
Category

v t e Satellite Award for Best Miniseries and Limited Series
1999–2010	Hornblower: The Even Chance (1999) American Tragedy (2000) Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001) Taken (2002) Angels in America (2003) The Lost Prince (2004) Elvis (2005) To the Ends of the Earth (2006) The Amazing Mrs Pritchard (2007) Cranford (2008) Little Dorrit (2009) Sherlock (2010)
2014–2015	Olive Kitteridge (2014) Flesh and Bone (2015)
2017–2022	Big Little Lies (2017) The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (2018) Chernobyl (2019) The Good Lord Bird (2020) Mare of Easttown (2021) Under the Banner of Heaven (2022)
Between 1996–1998, 2011–2013, 2016 and 2023–present, the category was merged with Best Miniseries and Limited Series or Television Film.

v t e Murder trial of O. J. Simpson
Key figures	O. J. Simpson (defendant) Nicole Brown Simpson (victim) Ron Goldman (victim)
Judge	Lance Ito
Prosecution figures	Marcia Clark Christopher Darden Gil Garcetti William Hodgman
Defense figures	F. Lee Bailey Johnnie Cochran Alan Dershowitz Carl E. Douglas Robert Kardashian Peter Neufeld Barry Scheck Robert Shapiro Gerald Uelmen
Witnesses	Traci Adell Michael Baden Pablo Fenjves Mark Fuhrman Kato Kaelin Henry Lee
Other figures	Al Cowlings Faye Resnick
Other elements	Brentwood Centinela Avenue DNA evidence Ford Bronco chase Fuhrman tapes Innocence Project Reactions to verdict
In popular culture	The O. J. Simpson Story Outrage If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer American Tragedy The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story June 17th, 1994 O.J.: Made in America The Juice The Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson

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