Ghosts of Mississippi

Dec 20, 1996

2h 10m

★ 6.6

A forgotten crime. An impossible case. A final chance... for justice.

Overview

A Mississippi district attorney and the widow of Medgar Evers struggle to bring a white supremacist to justice for the 1963 murder of the civil rights leader.

Genres

Drama

History

Production Companies

Castle Rock Entertainment

Frederick Zollo Productions

Ghosts of Mississippi Trailers

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Cast

Bobby DeLaughter

Alec Baldwin

Myrlie Evers

Whoopi Goldberg

Byron De La Beckwith

James Woods

Ed Peters

Craig T. Nelson

Peggy Lloyd

Susanna Thompson

Burt DeLaughter

Lucas Black

Drew DeLaughter

Joseph Tello

Claire DeLaughter

Alexa PenaVega

Charlie Crisco

William H. Macy

Benny Bennett

Lloyd 'Benny' Bennett

Darrell Evers

Reena Evers

Yolanda King

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.

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