Movie
Ghosts of Mississippi
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1996-12-20
- Runtime
- 130 min
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Castle Rock Entertainment, Frederick Zollo Productions
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Alec Baldwin as Bobby DeLaughter
- Whoopi Goldberg as Myrlie Evers
- James Woods as Byron De La Beckwith
- Craig T. Nelson as Ed Peters
- Susanna Thompson as Peggy Lloyd
- Lucas Black as Burt DeLaughter
- Joseph Tello as Drew DeLaughter
- Alexa PenaVega as Claire DeLaughter
- William H. Macy as Charlie Crisco
- Lloyd 'Benny' Bennett as Benny Bennett
- Darrell Evers as Darrell Evers
- Yolanda King as Reena Evers
Crew
- Rob Reiner - Director
- Lewis Colick - Writer
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