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Powerful thriller set in Mississippi in which a crusading lawyer joins with the widow of a civil rights leader murdered in 1963 to solve the crime. Thirty years after two trials failed to convict a white supremacist for the assassination, the Assistant DA sets out to prove that attitudes to race have changed in Mississippi, and that the victim did not die in vain. Based on a true story.

Keywords:

Drama, Thriller, Based-on-True-Story, Movie, Film, Movies, Films

Additional Information:

(1996) (3 Star)

Cast:

Alec Baldwin	.... Bobby DeLaughter
James Woods	.... Byron De La Beckwith
Virginia Madsen	.... Dixie DeLaughter
Whoopi Goldberg	.... Myrlie Evers
Susanna Thompson	.... Peggy Lloyd
Craig T. Nelson	.... Ed Peters

Supporting Cast:

Lucas Black	.... Burt DeLaughter
Joseph Tello	.... Drew DeLaughter
Alexa Vega	.... Claire DeLaughter
William H. Macy	.... Charlie Crisco
Ben Bennett	.... Benny Bennett
Darrell Evers	.... Himself
Yolanda King	.... Reena Evers
Jerry Levine	.... Jerry Mitchell
James Van Evers	.... Van Evers

Directors:

Rob Reiner

Writers:

Lewis Colick