Rating: PG13
Genre:
Historical Film
Release Date: 01/18/2000
SubTitles: English/French
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: 5.1/2
Run Time: 130 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
This is a long-awaited film telling the story of the trials of
Medgar Evers' killer.
Medger Evers (
James Pickens, Jr.) was a black civil-rights activist in Mississippi who was shot to death in 1963. Despite very persuasive evidence that Byron De La Beckwith (
James Woods) was indeed his killer, the all-white juries hearing his case at that time acquitted him (he was tried twice). In this film, with the aid of
Ever's widow Myrlie (
Whoopie Goldberg), Bobby DeLaughter (
Alec Baldwin), a young lawyer, gathers enough new evidence to bring Beckwith in for a third trial.
Woods' performance as a wise-cracking bigot is one of the film's highlights.
~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide