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In the Electric Mist (2009)

US:: R Crime Drama Mystery Thriller

Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie (Baby Feet) Balboni, who is co-producer of a Civil War film. At the same time, after Elrod Sykes, the star of the film, reports finding another corpse in the Atchafalaya Swamp near the movie set, Robicheaux starts another investigation, believing the corpse to be the remains of a black man who he saw being murdered 35 years before.

Updated May 10 2020

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2009-02-20

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FACTS

Runtime: 117 mins Rating: 6.1 Tag Line: NO ONE CAN ESCAPE THE SINS OF THE PAST

Cast

Peter Sarsgaard

Elrod Sykes

John Goodman

Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni

Tommy Lee Jones

Doolittle Lynn (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mary Steenburgen

Bootsie Robicheaux

Pruitt Taylor Vince

Lou Girard

Kelly Macdonald

Fergus

Ned Beatty

Dr. Gladstone

James Gammon

Ben Hebert