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| Title | Midnight in the garden of good and evil | Year | 1997 | |||||||||
| Director | Clint Eastwood | Writer | John Berendt, John Lee Hancock |
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| Country | USA | Language | English | |||||||||
| Cast | John Cusack, Kevin Spacey, Jack Thompson, Irma P. Hall, Jude Law, Alison Eastwood, Paul Hipp, Lady Chablis, Dorothy Loudon, Anne Haney | |||||||||||
| Movie links |
http://goodandevil.warnerbros.com/ (official website) http://www.geocities.com/midnightinsavannah/thegarden.html http://www.savannahnow.com/goodandevil/ |
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This panoramic tale of Savannah's eccentricities focuses on a murder and the subsequent trial of Jim Williams: self made man, art collector, antiques dealer, bon vivant and semi-closeted homosexual.
John Kelso a magazine reporter finds himself in Savannah amid the beautiful architecture and odd doings to write a feature on one of William's famous Christmas parties.
He is intrigued by Williams from the start, but his curiosity is piqued when he meets Jim's violent, young and sexy lover, Billy. Later that night, Billy is dead, and Kelso stays on to cover the murder trial.
Between being Jim's buddy, cuddling up to a torch singer, meeting every eccentric in Savannah, participating in midnight graveyard rituals and helping solve the mysteries surrounding Billy's murder, Kelso has his hands full.
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Jim Williams (played by Kevin Spacey) is a semi-closeted gay man whose lover Billy (played by Jude Law see also Wilde and The talented mr Ripley) is killed. |
At times a thrilling story of a man in search of the truth.
During this quest he encounters hidden aspects and colourful characters of the South of the USA and Savannah.
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[At the cemetery for a funeral]
John Kelso: Hey, Joe, what happened?
John Kelso: This place is fantastic; it's like "Gone with the wind" on mescaline. They walk imaginary pets here, Garland - on a fucking leash. And they're all heavily armed and drunk. New York is boring!
Jim Williams: I gave him what he needed, and he gave me what I needed.
The Lady Chablis: It's like my mother always said: "Two tears in a bucket, motherfuck it."
John Kelso: Chablis, I'm... I'm straight.
Jim Williams: What a genteel way of asking if I come from old money.
Jim Williams: Livin' here pisses off all the right people.
Jim Williams: So, which conversation shall we join?
Minerva: To understand the living, you got to commune with the dead.
Jim Williams: Sports, truth, like art, is in the eye of the beholder. You believe what you choose and I'll believe what I know.
Mandy Nichols: If you're thirsty, a drink will cure it, if you're not, a drink will prevent it. Prevention is better than a cure.
Billy Carl Hanson: You don't give me warnings, I give them to you, remember, 'cause I can back mine up.
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