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Murder in Greenwich (TV movie)

Murder in Greenwich
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Written by Dave Erickson
Mark Fuhrman (book)
Directed by Tom McLoughlin
Starring Christopher Meloni
Robert Forster
Maggie Grace
Jon Foster
Toby Moore
Liddy Holloway
Narrated by Maggie Grace
Theme music composer Don Davis
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
Production
Producer(s) Mark Fuhrman
Jacobus Rose
Judith Verno
Rachel Verno
Bernard Sofronski (Executive Producer)
Cinematography Mark Wareham
Editor(s) Charles Bornstein
Running time 88 minutes
Release
Original release November 15, 2002 (2002-11-15)

Murder in Greenwich is a 2002 American television film directed by Tom McLoughlin. The teleplay by Dave Erickson is based on the 1998 book of the same title by Mark Fuhrman.

The Columbia TriStar Domestic Television production debuted on the USA Network on November 15, 2002 and was released on DVD on May 6, 2003.

The film is narrated by Martha Moxley (Maggie Grace), whose brutal murder sometime between 10 p.m. on October 30 and the early morning hours of October 31, 1975 remains unsolved in 1997. Mark Fuhrman, a former Los Angeles Police Department detective who gained notoriety during the O.J. Simpson's murder trial, is intrigued by the case and travels to Greenwich, Connecticut to conduct an investigation of his own. Local authorities resent an outsider, especially one with a reputation as tarnished as Fuhrman's, invading their turf. They do everything they can to block Fuhrman's access to official reports. The film alternates between flashbacks of the events leading up to the murder and scenes set in the present day, which chronicle Fuhrman's frustration and interactions with Steve Carroll, the original investigator who grudgingly assists him. Their efforts ultimately bring Kennedy relative and former Moxley neighbor Michael Skakel to justice.

Michael Speier of Variety said, "Investigative techniques give way to genre cliches in USA's exaggerated Murder in Greenwich. Falling into the telepic trap of sensationalism without savvy, [it] delves into the shallow end of the Martha Moxley-Michael Skakel case, which has plenty more politics, intrigue and confounding history than this execution suggests . . . As Fuhrman, Meloni is macho almost to the point of bogus; whether he's playing the disgraced cop as he really is or how he thinks America sees him is hard to discern."


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