''The O. J. Simpson Story'' is a 1995 American

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directed by Jerrold Freedman and written by Stephen Harrigan. It stars

Bobby Hosea Bobby Hosea (born 1955) is an American film and television actor. He played O. J. Simpson in the Fox movie ''The O. J. Simpson Story''. and John Allen Muhammad in '' D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear''. He is the head of Train 'Em Up Academy, Inc., and ...

Jessica Tuck Jessica Tuck is an American actress, best known for her performances on television as Megan Gordon Harrison on the ABC soap opera ''One Life to Live'', Gillian Gray in the CBS drama series ''Judging Amy,'' and as Nan Flanagan on the HBO series ...

, David Roberson,

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and

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. It premiered on

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on January 31, 1995.

Plot

O.J. Simpson's ex-wife

Nicole Brown Nicole Brown Simpson (née Brown; May 19, 1959 – June 12, 1994) was the ex-wife of the former professional American football player, O. J. Simpson, to whom she was married from 1985 to 1992. She was the mother of their two children, Sydney a ...

is found murdered along with younger man

Ron Goldman Ronald Lyle Goldman (July 2, 1968 – June 12, 1994) was an American restaurant waiter and a friend of Nicole Brown Simpson, the ex-wife of the American football player O.J. Simpson. He was murdered, along with Brown, at her home in Los Angele ...

, outside Nicole's Brentwood townhouse. Simpson is brought to the police station as a suspect. Over the course of the film, numerous flashbacks dramatize various events in Simpson's life, from his first meeting with Nicole in 1977, to growing up in

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in the 1960s, to O.J. and Nicole's romance and marriage in 1985. The pair gradually descend into domestic squabbles over Simpson's selfish and controlling behavior, with Nicole suffering depression and drug use. Following the murders (which are never shown on-camera), Simpson panics and flees with a friend, filmed by media as the infamous 'Bronco chase' and resulting in Simpson's arrest as a suspect.Watch ‘The OJ Simpson Story,’ the 1995 TV Movie, in Its Entirety (Video) - Yahoo Entertainment
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