Movie
In the Electric Mist
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. At the same time, after Elrod Sykes, the star of the film, 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 who he saw being murdered 35 years before.
Details
- Release date
- 2009-04-15
- Runtime
- 117 min
- Genres
- Thriller, Drama, Crime, Mystery
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Little Bear, Ithaca Pictures, TF1 International
- Country
- France, United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Tommy Lee Jones as Dave Robicheaux
- John Goodman as Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni
- Peter Sarsgaard as Elrod Sykes
- Mary Steenburgen as Bootsie Robicheaux
- Kelly Macdonald as Kelly Drummond
- Justina Machado as Rosie Gomez
- Ned Beatty as Twinky LeMoyne
- James Gammon as Ben Hebert
- Pruitt Taylor Vince as Lou Girard
- Levon Helm as General John Bell Hood
- Buddy Guy as Sam 'Hogman' Patin
- Julio Cesar Cedillo as Cholo Manelli
Crew
- Bertrand Tavernier - Director
- Mary Olson-Kromolowski - Screenplay
- Jerzy Kromolowski - Screenplay
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