GHOSTS OF MISSISSIPPI (WIDESCREEN/FULL SCREEN)

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• Release Year: 1996
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: In 1963 civil rights leader Medgar Evers was murdered in his own driveway.; For 30 years his assassin has remained free.; Is it ever too late to do the right thing?; ; Myrlie Evers worked for the conviction of the white supremacist who murdered her husband, heroic civil rights leader Medgar Evers, through two hung juries and over 30 years. How Evers' killer was finally convicted comes to the screen with shattering emotional force in 'one of the most important films of the '90s.' (Paul Wunder, WBAI-FM/New York).; ; Directed by Rob Reiner and starring Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg and James Woods (an Academy Award nominee for his powerful work here), Ghosts Of Mississippi teems with the carefully recreated details of a relentless quest for justice and features special appearances by three children of Medgar Evers, as well as Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter Yolanda.
• Cast: Alec Baldwin, James Woods, Virginia Madsen, Whoopi Goldberg, Susanna Thompson, Craig T. Nelson, Lucas Black, Joseph Tello, Alexa Vega, William H. Macy, Ben Bennett, Darrell Evers, Yolanda King, Jerry Levine, James Van Evers, Sky Rumph, Zoaunne LeRoy, Michael O'Keefe, Bill Smitrovich, Terry O'Quinn, Rex Linn, Bill Henderson, James Pickens Jr., G. Ja'ron Henderson, Rae'Ven Larrymore Kelly, Curtis Tyler Haynes, Richard Riehle, Jim Harley, Bonnie Bartlett, Brock Peters, Wayne Rogers, Finn Carter, William Howard, Diane Ladd, Andy Romano, Richard Stahl, David Carpenter, Bill Cobbs, Jordan Lund, Jerry Hardin, Ramon Bieri, C.R. Doan, Katherine Randolph, L.D. Bass Sr., Monty Thomas, Eliott Keener, Brandon McKennah, William L. Donald, Jim Stallings, Michael Strasser, Diana Bellamy, Rance Howard, Thomas Kopache, Frank Hoyt Taylor, Sarah Hunley, Marilyn Lovell, Jill Andre, Leigh French, James Marshall Wolchok, John A. Horhn, Spencer Garrett, Fenton Lawless, David Armstrong, Michael Hewes, James Homer Best, Thom Barry, Louis E. Armstrong, Ed Bryson, Maggie Wade, Jane Jenkins, Keenan K. Evers, Nicole Evers-Everette, Dijon S. Williams, Tracey Costello, Margo Martindale, Delmar Dennis, Ted Alderman, Stokely Carmichael, Eva Ford, Stacy Hall, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, Jackie Robinson, Maridean Mansfield Shepard, John M. Sullivan II, Malcolm X, Rob Reiner, Lewis Colick
• Director: Rob Reiner
• Runtime: 2:10
• Company: Castle Rock Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie