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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a american film of genre Drama directed by Clint Eastwood released in USA on 21 november 1997 with Kevin Spacey
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 21 november 1997
Length 2h35
Directed by Clint Eastwood
OriginUSA
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Rating65%
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a 1997 American crime drama film directed by Clint Eastwood, and an adaptation of the eponymous 1994 non-fiction novel by John Berendt, which was based on events that took place in Savannah, Georgia in the 1980s. The film features Kevin Spacey as Jim Williams, a man on trial for murder, and John Cusack as John Kelso, a writer covering the case.
Several changes were made in adapting the film from the novel. Many of the more colorful characters were eliminated or combined into composite characters. The writer, played by Cusack, was based upon Berendt but was given a love interest not featured in the book, played by Eastwood's daughter Alison Eastwood. The multiple Williams trials were combined into one on-screen trial. Jim Williams' real life attorney Sonny Seiler appears in the movie in the role of Judge White, the presiding judge of the trial.
Advertising for the film became a source of controversy when Warner Bros. used elements of Jack Leigh's famous photograph in its movie posters without his permission.
Synopsis
This panoramic tale of Savannah's eccentricities focuses on a murder and the subsequent trial of Jim Williams (Kevin Spacey): self-made man, art collector, antiques dealer, bon vivant, and semi-closeted homosexual.Actors
Kevin Spacey
(James Williams)
John Cusack
(John Kelso)
Jack Thompson
(Sonny Seiler)
Jude Law
(Billy Carl Hanson)
Alison Eastwood
(Mandy Nichols)
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