In the Electric Mist

In the Electric Mist

★ 6.1IMDb Score
Released:2009-04-15
Duration:117 min
Director:Bertrand Tavernier
Actors:Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, Peter Sarsgaard, Mary Steenburgen, Kelly Macdonald
Production:Little Bear, Ithaca Pictures, TF1 International

Overview:

Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni, who is co-producer of a Civil War film. When the star of the film, Elrod Sykes, reports finding another corpse in the Atchafalaya Swamp near the movie set, Robicheaux starts another investigation, believing the corpse to be the remains of a black man whose murder he witnessed 35 years earlier.

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