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Ghosts from the Past

Ghosts of Mississippi

1996

Rob Reiner

Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, James Woods, Virginia Madsen ...

5.7

2,309

Drama Ghosts of Mississippi is a drama covering the final trial of the assassin, Bryon De La Beckwith (Woods), of the 60s civil rights leader Medgar Evers. It begins with the murder and the events surrounding the two initial trials which both ended in a hung jury. The movie then covers District Attorney, Bobby DeLaughters (Baldwin) transformation and alliance with Myrlie Evers (Goldberg), wife of Medgar Evers, of the, as he becomes more ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Godfrey Cheshire Variety	"'Ghosts of Mississippi' is history a la Hollywood that doesn't manage to be particularly vivid or exciting"	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"This is a moving story, but it's not a particularly compelling one in “Ghosts of Mississippi,” which plays like a TV docudrama and doesn't generate the emotional intensity of such similar films as “Mississippi Burning” and “A Time To Kill.” (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle	"[It] may be squeaky clean historically, but it lacks the underlying passion to take it into the realm of the inspired"	NEU

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