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In the Electric Mist
NO ONE CAN ESCAPE THE SINS OF THE PAST
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. When the star of the film, Elrod Sykes, 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 whose murder he witnessed 35 years earlier.
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Synopsis
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. When the star of the film, Elrod Sykes, 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 whose murder he witnessed 35 years earlier.
More about In the Electric Mist
Cast
Tommy Lee JonesDave Robicheaux
John GoodmanJulie 'Baby Feet' Balboni
Peter SarsgaardElrod Sykes
Mary SteenburgenBootsie Robicheaux
Kelly MacdonaldKelly Drummond
Justina MachadoRosie Gomez
Ned BeattyTwinky LeMoyne
James GammonBen HebertCredits
- Directed by
- Bertrand Tavernier
- Written by
- Jerzy Kromolowski, Mary Olson-Kromolowski, James Lee Burke
Production details
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
Production
- Little BearFrance
- Ithaca PicturesUnited States
- TF1 InternationalFrance
