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Clint Eastwood directed this adaptation of John Berendt's non-fiction best-seller about a Savannah, Georgia, murder case. When this film was released, Berendt's book had been on best-seller lists for four years. As the film begins, New York journalist John Kelso (John Cusack), alter ego of author Berendt, arrives in Savannah to do a brief Town and Country article on the annual Christmas party given by sophisticated, urbane antique dealer Jim Williams (Kevin Spacey), who restored many mansions in
Nov 21, 1997 Wide
Jun 30, 1998
Warner Home Video
All Critics (56) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (15) | Rotten (17) | DVD (9)
Seems like alchemy in reverse - a golden property is turned into lead.
Spacey, the best reason to see Midnight, gives his usual suave, effortless performance.
Seriously underrated; Eastwood gets the lazy Savannah pacing exactly right.
Overlong and clumsy, but compelling.
11/21/11 update: Just saw this again after about two or three years. Clint Eastwood is a multi-tasking god. I have a friend who has a couple of high-school aged daughters. It's not that the daughters are slackers; the oldest one is the valedictorian of her class. What bothers my friend is that the kids are always
April 1, 2006Super Reviewer
Jim Williams: Sport, truth, like art, is in the eye of the beholder. You believe what you choose and I'll believe what I know. "Welcome to Savannah, Georgia. A City Of Hot Nights And Cold Blooded Murder."Midnight in The Garden of Good and Evil is probably in the bottom half of Eastwood's directorial efforts. But i
October 2, 2011
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