085391477624

1997

1997-11-21

155

2h 35min

Awards, 1 win & 4 nominations

Clint Eastwood

John Berendt, John Lee Hancock

John Cusack, Kevin Spacey, Jack Thompson

Clint Eastwood, Michael Maurer, Tom Rooker, Arnold Stiefel, Anita Zuckerman

Lennie Niehaus

Jack N. Green

Joel Cox

Phyllis Huffman

Henry Bumstead

Jack G. Taylor Jr.

Eryn Krueger Mekash, Vivian McAteer, Tania McComas, Carol A. O Connell, Linda Boykin-Williams, Julie Callihan, Louis Lazzara, Joan Shay

Michael Maurer

David M. Bernstein, Robert Lorenz, Tom Rooker, Dodi Lee Rubenstein, Rosemarie Unite

John H. Anderson, Ron Ashmore, Cate Bangs, Steve Belin, Jann K. Engel, Frank M. Fleming, Richard C. Goddard, Chuck Herrmann, Margaret Hungerford, Sylvia Shaw Judson, Peter J. Kelly, Al Mouradian, James J. Murakami, Charles Nixon III, Joseph G. Pacelli Jr., Sandra Renfroe, John J. Rutchland Jr., Michael Sexton, Blue Sullivan, Stacy Weddington, Sean Bernard, Kenneth Bryant, Joe Connolly, Patrick Fuhrman, Lillian Heyward, Damon Hight, Eric Luling, Laura M. O Brien, James Passanante, Glenn Rivers, Larry Sauls, Scott D. Warner

Bub Asman, Neil Burrow, Scott Burrow, Willie D. Burton, David E. Campbell, Kevin E. Carpenter, Lucy Coldsnow-Smith, Samuel C. Crutcher, Mike Dobie, Juno J. Ellis, Patrick J. Foley, Jeffrey J. Haboush, Denise Horta, David L. Horton Jr., Doug Jackson, Scott D. Jackson, Stephen Janisz, Adam Johnston, Constance A. Kazmer, Andy Kopetzky, Gary Krivacek, Marvin E. Lewis, David Linton, Darrin Martin, Alan Robert Murray, Craig Nolan, Kim Nolan, Jayme S. Parker, Michelle Pleis, John F. Reynolds, Bruce Richardson, Karen Spangenberg, Paul C. Warschilka, Jay Wilkinson, Robb Wilson, Butch Wolf, Eric Gotthelf, Phil Hadaway, Troy Porter, Casey Stone

Ken Ebert, John Frazier, Jim Jolly, Tim Moran, Joe Pancake, Francis Pennington, Steve Riley

Jim Morris

George Orrison

Denise Bailie, Ed Blakely, Stephen S. Campanelli, Paul Caven, Bill Coe, Sam Emerson, Antonio V. Garrido, Jan Gould, Peter N. Green, Frank Helbig, Frank R. Jimenez Jr., William McConnell, Charles Saldana, Kevin Thompson, Paul Varrieur, Doug Wall, Charles W. Wayt, Tom Bradley, Mark Duncan, Tom Fendley, Mark Hochman, Douglas Luka, Jacqueline J. Nivens, Kenneth Patsel, Christian Rice, Randy Tharpe

Shay Griffin, Olivia Harris, Claudia Ramsumair, Dennis Adams, Kevin Goldson, Kim Petrosky

Cindy Evans, Sybil Gray, Deborah Hopper, Kate Sawyer, Peggy A. Schnitzer, Wendy Moynihan

Michael Cipriano, Mo Henry, Bob Putynkowski, Gary Roach, Don Roth, Brandon K. Hogan

Laura Bryant, John Findley, Antoinette Levine, Sam Nesbitt

Charlie Haden, Donald Harris, Ernie Watts, Robert Fernandez, Matt Pierson, James Thatcher

Cate Hardman

Pete Bianco, Keith Dillin, John Lybrand, Graham Ready, Gina August, Robert Ballentine, Ronald F. Debranski II, Stu Dodge, Roy A. Grace, Jennifer Spell, Tom Sweeney, Toby Ring Thelin, Hank Van Apeldoorn

J. Thomas Bailey, Marco Barla, David Becton, Marc Anthony Coar, Matthew Cope, Erin Corzine, Doug Dearth, Laurence P. Duke, Greg East, Megan Fogarty, John Guss, Bob Hartman, Craig Hosking, Don Kincade, Jason McGatlin, April Melcher, Dennis Miyamoto, Tim Monich, Danny Morris, Ian Parker, Derry J. Pearce, Frank Pelluchon, Jeffrey Phelps, Michael Scott Reid, Melissa Rooker, Mika Saito, Talley Singer, Jerrell Skinner, Heidi Smith, Blanche Sypher, Kristin Webb, Mike Welch, Andrew White, Doris Wood, Robert Yacobian, Doug Burch, Rebecca Gnann, Lisa Harrison, Jerry Hunt, Joe Hyams, Tony Kerum, Grey Moore, Jennifer Spell

Alice Hayes

Crime, Drama, Mystery

Warner Bros., Malpaso Productions, Silver Pictures

USA

English, French

R

6.6

39405

57

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a 1997 American mystery thriller film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood and starring John Cusack and Kevin Spacey. The screenplay by John Lee Hancock was based on John Berendt s 1994 book of the same name and follows the story of an antiques dealer, Jim Williams, on trial for the murder of a male prostitute. The multiple trials depicted in Berendt s book are combined into one trial for the film.

Several real-life locals appear in the movie, notably in the party scene at Mercer House, including Williams sister, Dorothy, and nieces Susan and Amanda, as well as Georgia senator John R. Jack Riley (his wife was played by Mary Alice Hendrix). Filming was permitted inside Mercer House, but action scenes were filmed later on a soundstage at Warner Bros.

Three people — The Lady Chablis, Emma Kelly and Jerry Spence — play themselves, while Sonny Seiler, one of Williams lawyers in the book, plays Judge Samuel L. White. Danny Hansford, the shooting victim in the book, is renamed Billy Hanson in the film and is portrayed by a 24-year-old Jude Law, in one of his early film roles.

The film was shot entirely in Savannah, Georgia.

$35,000,000 (estimated)

$5,233,658

$25,105,255

$25,105,255

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