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

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Cast:
Alec Baldwin - DeLaughter,Bobby
Whoopi Goldberg - Myrlie Evers
James Woods - Byron De La Beckwith
Craig T. Nelson - Peters,Ed
William H. Macy - Charlie Crisco
Bill Cobbs - Charlie Evers
Susanna Thompson - Peggy Lloyd
Lucas Black - Burt DeLaughter

Production:
Rob Reiner - Director
Rob Reiner Frederick Zollo Nicholas Paleologos Andrew Schinman - Producer
Frank Capra III - Co Producer
Robert Leighton - Editor
Lewis Colick John Seale - Screen Writer
Karen O'Hara Alan S. Kaye - Set Designer
Christopher Burian-Mohr - Art Director
Jane Jenkins - Casting
Janet Hirshenson - Casting
Gloria Gresham - Costume Designer
Charles James Newirth - Executive Producer
Jeffrey Stott - Executive Producer
Frank Capra III - First Assistant Director
Lilly Kilvert - Production Designer
Marc Shaiman - Songwriter
Robert Grieve - Sound/Sound Designer

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