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{{Infobox television
| genre                = 
| creator              = 
| based_on             = {{based on|''American Tragedy: The Uncensored Story of the Simpson Defense''|Lawrence Schiller and James Willwerth}}
| writer               = [[Norman Mailer]]
| screenplay           = 
| story                = 
| director             = [[Lawrence Schiller]]
| starring             = {{ubl|[[Ving Rhames]]|[[Ron Silver]]|[[Bruno Kirby]]|[[Raymond Forchion]]|[[Christopher Plummer]]|[[Richard Cox (actor)|Richard Cox]]}}
| narrated             = 
| music                = [[Bill Conti]]
| country              = United States
| language             = English
| num_episodes         = 
| producer             = {{ubl|Lawrence Schiller|Lynn Raynor}}
| editor               = {{ubl|Katina Zinner|[[Peter Zinner]]}}
| cinematography       = [[Bruce Surtees]]
| runtime              = 170 minutes
| company              = 
| budget               = 
| network              = [[CBS]]
| released             = {{Film date|2000|11|12}}
}}

'''''American Tragedy''''' is a 2000 television movie broadcast on [[CBS Television Network|CBS]] from November 12, 2000 to November 15, 2000. It 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]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Tucker |first=Ken |title=TV Review: American Tragedy |url=http://www.ew.com/article/2000/11/10/american-tragedy |work=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |date=November 10, 2000 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161106141434/http://www.ew.com/article/2000/11/10/american-tragedy |archive-date=2016-11-06}}</ref> It was produced by [[Fox Television Studios]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Gay |first=Jason |title=Norman Mailer to CBS: You Blew It! |url=http://observer.com/2000/11/norman-mailer-to-cbs-you-blew-it-i-feel-lucky-says-kimes-hostage/ |work=[[The New York Observer]] |date=November 27, 2000}}</ref> 

It won a [[Satellite Awards|Satellite Award]] and was nominated for a [[Golden Globe Award]].<ref>{{cite web |title=American Tragedy (2000 TV Movie) — Awards |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0250135/awards/ |work=[[Internet Movie Database]]}}</ref>

== Cast ==
* [[Ving Rhames]] as [[Johnnie Cochran]]
* [[Ron Silver]] as [[Robert Shapiro (lawyer)|Robert Shapiro]]
* [[Bruno Kirby]] as [[Barry Scheck]]
* [[Darryl Alan Reed]] as [[Carl E. Douglas|Carl Douglas]]
* [[Nicholas Pryor]] as [[Gerald Uelmen|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 (actor)|Richard Cox]] as [[Alan Dershowitz]]
* [[Raymond Forchion]] as [[O. J. Simpson]]
* [[Clyde Kusatsu]] as Judge [[Lance Ito]]

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