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Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)
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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 prosecutor (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...
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Ghosts of Mississippi Movie Review by Jarrod  (2/3/2008) |
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'Ghosts of Mississippi' begins with the assassination of prominent civil rights leader Medger Evers in 1963, five years before Martin Luther King would meet the same fate, and one could point out that this was the same length of time between the murders of John and Bobby Kennedy. John F Kennedy, as president, gave a...
(complete Ghosts of Mississippi review by Jarrod)
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