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Release Date: 2003

Cast: Bokeem Woodbine, Cherion Drakes, Eugene Clark, Blu Mankuma, Roy T. Anderson, Louis Gossett, Jr., Jim Millington, Dvora Kedar, Joe Morton, Michelle Moffatt, Emily Yancy, Karen Robinson ...MORE

Cast: Bokeem Woodbine, Cherion Drakes, Eugene Clark, Blu Mankuma, Roy T. Anderson, Louis Gossett, Jr., Jim Millington, Dvora Kedar, Joe Morton, Michelle Moffatt, Emily Yancy, Karen Robinson, Jon Voight ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Crime Fiction, Television movie, Social problem film, Docudrama, Courtroom Drama

Jasper, Texas is a 2003 American television movie directed by Jeffrey W. Byrd. The teleplay by Jonathan Estrin is based on a true story and focuses on the aftermath of a crime in which three white men from the small town of Jasper, Texas killed African American James Byrd, Jr. by dragging him behind their pickup truck. The film was shown at the Philadelphia International Film Festival before being broadcast by Showtime on June 8, 2003. In Jasper, Texas in June 1998, three self-proclaimed white supremacists chain James Byrd, Jr. to the back of their pickup and drag him to his death over... MORE

Jasper, Texas is a 2003 American television movie directed by Jeffrey W. Byrd. The teleplay by Jonathan Estrin is based on a true story and focuses on the aftermath of a crime in which three white men from the small town of Jasper, Texas killed African American James Byrd, Jr. by dragging him behind their pickup truck. The film was shown at the Philadelphia International Film Festival before being broadcast by Showtime on June 8, 2003. In Jasper, Texas in June 1998, three self-proclaimed white supremacists chain James Byrd, Jr. to the back of their pickup and drag him to his death over three miles of country road. When the town is forced to deal with an onslaught of media coverage that thrusts it into the collective conscience of the entire country and the arrival of contentious members of the Ku Klux Klan and the Black Panthers, the once peaceful relationship between its white and black citizens is subjected to tension. Trying to maintain peace in the community as the trial of the three perpetrators commences are black mayor R.C. Horn and white sheriff Billy Rowles, neither of whom is prepared to handle all the negative publicity. Justice is served when two of the men are LESS