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Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

Ghosts of Mississippi
1996
***
Director: Rob Reiner
Cast: Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, James Woods, Graig T. Nelson

A black civil rights activist is gunned down in the 1960s, but the assassin goes free in the openly racist Mississippi. That is until the case is reopened 30 years later. This drama is touching and well-intentioned, but although it's based on a true story, the characters and the story twists seem extremely clichéd.