Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (film)
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| Directed by | Clint Eastwood |
| Produced by | Clint Eastwood |
| Screenplay by | John Lee Hancock |
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt |
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| Music by | Lennie Niehaus |
| Cinematography | Jack N. Green |
| Edited by | Joel Cox |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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155 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English French |
| Budget | $30 million |
| Box office | $25.1 million |
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| Soundtrack album by Various Artists | |
| Released | November 18, 1997 |
| Length | 58:04 |
| Label | Warner Bros. |
| Producer | Ernie Altschuler |
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a 1997 American crime drama film directed by Clint Eastwood, and an adaptation of the 1994 non-fiction work of the same name 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.
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. John Kelso (John Cusack), a magazine reporter, finds himself in Savannah amid the beautiful architecture and odd doings to write a feature on one of Williams' famous Christmas parties.
Kelso is intrigued by Williams from the start, but his curiosity is piqued when he meets the violent, young Billy Hanson (Jude Law), Williams' lover. Later that night, Hanson is dead, and Kelso stays on to cover the murder trial. Along the way he encounters the irrepressible The Lady Chablis, a transsexual stand-up comedienne; Sonny Seiler, lawyer to Williams, whose famous dog "Uga IV" is the official mascot of the Georgia Bulldogs; a man who keeps flies attached to mini leashes on his lapels and threatens daily to poison the water supply; Serena Dawes, a former silent-film actress; the Married Ladies Card Club; and Minerva, a spiritualist and voodoo practitioner.
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