Ghosts of Mississippi PG-13
From the director of A FEW GOOD MEN comes a compelling TRUE STORY.
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 2 hours, 10 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 9, 2010
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: Turner Home Ent
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Whoopi Goldberg & Alec Baldwin | |
Performer: | William H. Macy, James Woods & Craig T. Nelson | |
Directed by | Rob Reiner | |
Screenwriting by | Lewis Colick | |
Produced by | Andrew Scheinman, Frederick Zollo & Nicholas Paleologos |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/4 --
It closes a chapter in history, but scarcely brings it to life.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 2/4 --
Strangely devoid of any emotional weight.
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TheMovieReport.com
Rating: 3/5 --
Reiner's intermittingly preachy but nevertheless powerful and poignant portrait of hostility and racial strife during one of the ugliest chapters in contemporary American history
Movie Eye
Convincingly plumbs the spiritual impules behind the yearning for justice.
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Spirituality and Practice
Rating: 2/4 --
Rob Reiner's self-congratulatory Ghosts of Mississippi portrays Medgar Evers' slaying from the viewpoint of a white guy and can't even do a capable job of that.
USA Today
I've grown increasingly restive at such films as Mississippi Burning, A Time to Kill, and Ghosts of Mississippi... All three films celebrate the heroism of white law officers in prosecuting racist killers.
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New York Magazine/Vulture
Rating: 3/5 --
Well intended film with James Woods Oscar worthy in a key role.
Nolan's Pop Culture Review
Product Description:
Fueled by James Woods's chilling portrayal of Klansman Byron De La Beckwith, the cold-blooded, unrepentant killer of Medgar Evers, GHOSTS OF MISSISSIPPI offers a compelling account based on the true story of the attempt to see justice served in spite of time, corruption, and a defiant community. During the 1960s, Myrlie Evers (stirringly portrayed by Whoopi Goldberg) witnessed her husband slain in her own driveway in front of her three young children. For 30 years, Mrs. Evers petitioned the courts to reopen his case, tried twice to questionable mistrial, with her pleas eternally falling on deaf ears. Bobby DeLaughter (Alec Baldwin), while certainly an ambitious attorney, is not the most likely candidate to take on the largely forgotten case of the shooting murder of Evers, a prominent civil rights worker. The son-in-law of a well-known (and well-known to be racist) judge, DeLaughter's civil rights history is negligible; however, as a father, the case strikes his sense of fairness, justice, and family, and he takes it. From there lies an uphill battle, as many in Mississippi, even at the end of the 20th century, still hold to the traditions of segregation and resentment of those who would change them. Despite these odds, Rob Reiner's film tells the moving story of one unlikely triumph over the horrors of the past.