Alec Baldwin, Craig T. Nelson, James Pickens Jr.

Rob Reiner, who used to be more interested in personal style as a filmmaker, continues to duck behind bland movies about important ideas with this based-on-fact film about the embattled white prosecut...( read more  read more... )or (Alec Baldwin) who brought racist killer Byron De La Beckwith (James Woods) to justice after 30 years of failed attempts. Charged with the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, Beckwith slimes up the film pretty well via Woods's somewhat showy performance, while Baldwin generously assumes the usual clichés surrounding reluctant heroes. Whoopi Goldberg is at her most stately as Evers's widow. The whole self-important production is dogged by the obvious thought that it might have played better (and to far more people than it did in theaters) on television. --Tom Keogh

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R, 130 min.

Directed by: Rob Reiner

Release Date: June 1, 1997

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DVD Release Date: January 18, 2000

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  • March 17, 2007
    I rather enjoyed this film I must admit. In places it is not easy to recognise how much time has passed since the last scene (sometimes years) but otherwise a great movie.
  • January 15, 2007
    Powerful movie.
  • September 19, 2009
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    Ghost of Mississippi tells the story of a retrial of the case of Medgar Evers, a nigger was killed many years ago, and the killer wa...( read more)s never convicted. Alec Baldwin performance as Bobby De Laughter, the DA that reopened the case was amazing. James Woods role as the killer Beckwith, not an easy role, was also great and Whoopi Goldberg, in a serious role, as the widow Myrlie, was totally believable.The fact that it was based on a true story makes it more interesting.
  • December 26, 2007
    An amazing film!
  • February 14, 2007
    Woods is great as usual as a racist redneck.
  • November 20, 2009
    Yet another "all Southerner's are racists" film.
  • June 28, 2009
    fanatstic movie . very powerful story
  • June 8, 2009
    Really good but because it's such a downer I can't really watch it all the time.
  • June 1, 2009
    tertekan rasanya ...
  • April 14, 2009
    This is an amazing film, based on a true story. All of the performances, in this film are great! James Woods, did such an excellent job, of portraying a complete ass, that I was creeped out!

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