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Rob Reiner

Ghosts from the Past

Director Rob Reiner Composer Marc Shaiman Cast Alec Baldwin, James Woods, Whoopi Goldberg, Craig T. Nelson, Susanna Thompson
Edition 1997
130' - 1996 - Drama - 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

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Dialogue

English

Countries of production

United States of America

Year

1996