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- Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 43% approval rating based on 30 reviews, with an average rating of 5.70/10. The site's consensus states: "James Woods is convincing as a white supremacist, but everything else rings false in this courtroom drama, which examines a weighty subject from the least interesting perspective."
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Dec 20, 1996 · Reviews. Ghosts of Mississippi. Roger Ebert December 20, 1996. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. In June 1963, Medgar Evers, a Mississippi NAACP leader, was shotdead while standing in his driveway. A man named Byron De La Beckwith wascharged with the crime, but went free after two all-white juries reacheddeadlocks.
In this film based on actual events, black activist Medgar Evers (James Pickens Jr.) is murdered in 1963, and much of the evidence points toward white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith (James...
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- Rob Reiner
- PG-13
- Alec Baldwin
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 11, 2004 Nell Minow Movie Mom Strong performances but just another movie about civil rights issues that pays too much attention to the white characters.
Jan 19, 2022 · Ghosts of Mississippi recalls a powerful story from the civil right's movement, but director Rob Reiner thinks history needs a cutesy, TV-style makeover.
Jan 3, 1997 · Ghosts of Mississippi: Directed by Rob Reiner. With Alec Baldwin, James Woods, Virginia Madsen, Whoopi Goldberg. A Mississippi district attorney and the widow of Medgar Evers struggle to finally bring a white racist to justice for the 1963 murder of the civil rights leader.
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- Drama, History
- Rob Reiner
- 1997-01-03
Ghosts of Mississippi (1996) is a movie I recently watched on HBOMAX and tells the tale of a white supremacist in Mississippi who one day grabs a rifle, drives down the street, gets out of his car for all to see, and shoots a black man in front of his wife and kids.
Oct 22, 2022 · Editor Rating ★★★★★. More Details. True story of how a white Miss.D.A. & the widow of slain NAACP leader Medgar Evers finally brought the murderer to justice years later.
