Director
Rob Reiner
Composer
Marc Shaiman
Cast
Alec Baldwin, James Woods, Whoopi Goldberg, Craig T. Nelson, Susanna Thompson
Edition 1997
130'
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1996
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Drama
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Dialogue:
English
Jackson, Mississippi, 1963. Arriving at his family home, civil rights activist Medgar Evers is gunned down by a racist assassin, Byron De La Beckwith. The police soon arrest Beckwith as a suspect, but two trials come to nothing before all-white juries. In 1989, a local newspaper uncovers evidence of jury tampering in the Evers case. The DA's office, under pressure from Evers' widow Myrlie, reopens the case and assigns assistant DA Bobby DeLaughter. His wife Dixie, daughter of the original judge, doesn't want him to take the case. But Bobby is soon confinced that Beckwith is guilty and he assures a sceptical Mrs Evers that he will pursue the case. A film based on the real trial for the murder on Medgar Evers that took place in 1994.
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Credits
Directors
Rob Reiner
Composers
Marc Shaiman
Cast
Alec Baldwin, James Woods, Whoopi Goldberg, Craig T. Nelson, Susanna Thompson
Scenario
Lewis Colick
Director of Photography
John Seale
Editors
Robert Leighton
Producers
Nicholas Paleologos, Rob Reiner, Andrew Scheinman, Frederick Zollo
More info
Dialogue
English
Countries of production
United States of America
Year
1996