NO ONE CAN ESCAPE THE SINS OF THE PAST
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. When the star of the film, Elrod Sykes, 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 whose murder he witnessed 35 years earlier.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and contemplative.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- warmbleak
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Cast
- Tommy Lee JonesDave Robicheaux
- John GoodmanJulie 'Baby Feet' Balboni
- Peter SarsgaardElrod Sykes
- Mary SteenburgenBootsie Robicheaux
- Kelly MacdonaldKelly Drummond
- Justina MachadoRosie Gomez
- Ned BeattyTwinky LeMoyne
- James GammonBen Hebert
- Pruitt Taylor VinceLou Girard
- Levon HelmGeneral John Bell Hood
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- Bertrand TavernierDirector
- Jerzy KromolowskiScreenplay
- Mary Olson-KromolowskiScreenplay
- James Lee BurkeNovel
- Bruno de KeyzerDirector of Photography
- Marco BeltramiOriginal Music Composer
- Thierry DeroclesEditor
- Larry MadarasEditor
- Roberto SilviEditor
- Frédéric BourboulonProducer
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