Film

Ghosts of Mississippi

1996 · 2h 10m · Drama · History

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

IMDb

6.7

Rotten Tomatoes

42%

Metacritic

56

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.

Alec Baldwin

Bobby DeLaughter

Whoopi Goldberg

Myrlie Evers

James Woods

Byron De La Beckwith

Craig T. Nelson

Ed Peters

Susanna Thompson

Peggy Lloyd

Lucas Black

Burt DeLaughter

Joseph Tello

Drew DeLaughter

Alexa PenaVega

Claire DeLaughter

William H. Macy

Charlie Crisco

Lloyd 'Benny' Bennett

Benny Bennett

Darrell Evers

Darrell Evers

Yolanda King

Reena Evers

James Van Evers

Van Evers

Jerry Levine

Jerry Mitchell

Sky Rumph

Jared Lloyd

Margo Martindale

Clara Mayfield

• Rob ReinerDirector · Producer
• Lewis ColickWriter
• Frederick ZolloProducer
• Nicholas PaleologosProducer
• Andrew ScheinmanProducer
• Charles NewirthExecutive Producer
• Jeffrey StottExecutive Producer
• John SealeDirector of Photography
• Marc ShaimanOriginal Music Composer
• Robert LeightonEditor

Release date

December 20, 1996

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

2h 10m

Rated

PG-13

Budget

$30,000,000

Revenue

$13,323,144

Genres

Drama, History

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