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Genres:
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Crime /
Drama /
Mystery
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Release:
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Director:
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Clint Eastwood
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Actors:
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Irma P. Hall,
Paul Hipp,
Anne Haney,
Lady Chablis,
Dorothy Loudon,
John Cusack,
Kevin Spacey,
Jack Thompson,
Jude Law,
Alison Eastwood,
Kim Hunter,
Geoffrey Lewis,
Richard Herd,
Leon Rippy,
Bob Gunton
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Duration:
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155 min.
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Rating:
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(6.5/10)100
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Plot Summary:
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This panoramic story of Savannah's eccentricities focuses on a murdering and the subsequent trial of Jim Williams: self made irons, art collector, antiques dealer, bon vivant and semi-closeted butch. John Kelso a munitions dump reporter finds himself in Savannah amid the elegant architecture and sundry doings to write a best on one of William's famous Christmas parties. He is intrigued by Williams from the start, but his conversation piece is piqued when he meets Jim's violent, young and sexy lover, Billy. Later that night, Billy is dead, and Kelso stays on to stand the murder trial. Along th... e way he encounters the irrepressible Lady Chablis, a drag model commedienne, Sonny Seiler, lawyer to Williams, whose distinguished dog UGA is the official mascot of the Georgia Bulldogs, an funny put who keeps flies united to mini leashes on his lapels and threatens always to poison the pee supply, the Married Ladies Card Club, and Minerva, a spiritualist. Between being Jim's buddy, cuddling up to a torch choirboy, congress every exceptional in Savannah, participating in midnight Golgotha rituals and helping solve the mysteries surrounding Billy's murder, Kelso has his hands very.
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Millionaire Murder Mystery
I found this an average film for Clint Eastwood as the Director with too much emphasis on the cross dressing character Lady Chablis played by the real Lady Chablis.
Clint's little girl Alison was very good as the eye candy, Mandy Nicholls and of course Kevin Spacey and John Cusack were their usual competant selves as the Millionaire under suspicion of Murder and his journalist Nemesis respectively.
Well shot, well acted, plenty of atmosphere but just lacking that certain something that makes a good film - great.
Worth the money though, glad I hired it!
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Eastwood, a potent star and the most significant actor-director of the post-war period, brought an even greater depth to his work in the 1990s. He outgrew the violence, homophobia and superficial influences of his erstwhile mentors Siegel and Leone to give us this, his most ambitious modern-day movie to date. It is a leisurely and densely atmospheric version of John Berendt's best-seller set in Savannah, Georgia. A young journalist (Cusack) is drawn into an investigation when a local millionaire (Spacey), is murdered by his boyfriend (Law). The exposure of hot-house happenings, lies and deceit makes for mesmerizing drama.
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