In the Electric Mist

In the Electric Mist

6.1IMDb Score
Released:2009-04-15
Genre:Thriller, Drama, Crime, Mystery
Duration:117 min
Country:France, United States of America
Director:Bertrand Tavernier
Actors:Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, Peter Sarsgaard, Mary Steenburgen, Kelly Macdonald
Production:Little Bear, Ithaca Pictures, TF1 International

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.

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