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In the Electric Mist

Year:

2009

Duration:

Germany:117 min (Berlin International Film Festival) | USA:102 min (DVD)

Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

IMDB rate:

6.1

Director:

Bertrand Tavernier

Awards:

2 nominations

Details

Country: France

Release Date: 2009-04-15

Filming Locations: Albania Plantation - 1842 LA 182 E., Jeanerette, Louisiana, USA

Cast

Actor

Character

Pruitt Taylor Vince

In the Electric Mist

Tommy Lee Jones

Dave Robicheaux

John Goodman

Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni

Peter Sarsgaard

Elrod Sykes

Mary Steenburgen

Bootsie Robicheaux

Kelly Macdonald

Kelly Drummond

Justina Machado

Rosie Gomez

Ned Beatty

Twinky LeMoyne

James Gammon

Ben Hebert

Levon Helm

General John Bell Hood

Buddy Guy

Sam 'Hogman' Patin

Julio Cedillo

Cholo Manelli

Bernard Hocke

Murphy Doucet

John Sayles

Michael Goldman

Gary Grubbs

Sheriff

Walter Breaux

Batist

Alana Locke

Alafair Robicheaux

Adella Gautier

Clothilde (Cleaning Woman)

Louis Herthum

Doobie Patout

Ritchie Montgomery

Club Leon Bartender

Tony Molina Jr.

Adonis Brown

Randy Austin

St. Clare Parish Deputy

Richard Andrew Jones

Sollie Rothberg

Andrea Frankle

Margot

William Burton

Thug #1

Rio Hackford

Thug #2

Ryan Rilette

Jimmie

Greg Guirard

Old Cajun Fisherman

Cindy Blanchard

Parole Officer

Sandra Leigh Babineaux

Newspaper Clerk

Danny Grisaffe

Uniformed Patrolman #1

Steve Broussard

Mr. Trajan

John Wilmot

Mr. Meaux

Richard Landry

Photographer

Matt Naquin

Waiter

Katie Tull

Assistant

Dennis Paul Williams

Himself - Guitar

Herman Brown

Himself - Drums

Robert Leblanc

Himself - Bass

Mark A. Williams

Himself - Rubboard

Damon Lipari

Stuntman

Nathan Williams

Band Member 1

Samantha Beaulieu

Amber

Allen Boudreaux

Restaurant Patron

Zach Broussard

Captain

Louis Dupuy

Party Guest (uncredited)

Bria Hobgood

Beautiful Girl at Party

Chukwuma Onwuchekwa

Dewitt Prejean

Victoria Patenaude

Homeless Drunk (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

John Goodman jokes to Tommy Lee Jones, "I'm making a baseball movie next. Want a part in it?" Jones played Ty Cobb in 1998.

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John Bell Hood died aged of 48; in this movie he's played by 68 year old Levon Helm.

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Never released theatrically in the U.S., where it went straight to DVD.

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Goofs

The movie star rents a huge saltwater boat to go out into the Atchafalaya Basin. This may have been done to show the character's naiveté.

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Tommy Lee picks the lock with one hand and one tool. A flashlight is in his other hand, he holds. Lock-picking usually requires one tool to hold the tumblers and one to turn the mechanism. Most people can only do that with both hands.

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When Tommy Lee bashes the guy's head into the pay phone at the bus station, his head clearly goes between the phone and the divider, not hitting anything.

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Quotes

Dave Robicheaux: My name's Dave Robicheaux. I'm an alcoholic. Sometimes I'm tempted to have a drink. But I never do.

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Dave Robicheaux: How would you define the idea of understanding?

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Dave Robicheaux: Lou Girard always called at night. I have picked him out of the gutters from New Orleans to Lake Charles, held him when he had the shakes, and driven him to A-A meetings more times than I can remember. And he had done the same for me.

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Faq

Was this movie adapted from a book?

The film is based on the novel In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead by James Lee Burke.

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