# In the Electric Mist (2009)

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**Runtime**: 117 min
**Genres**: Thriller, Drama, Crime, Mystery
**Directed by**: Bertrand Tavernier
**Written by**: Jerzy Kromolowski, Mary Olson-Kromolowski
**Starring**: Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, Peter Sarsgaard, Mary Steenburgen, Kelly Macdonald, Justina Machado

> *NO ONE CAN ESCAPE THE SINS OF THE PAST*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Louisiana bayou. Fog and cicadas. A drowned woman.

Detective Dave Robicheaux hunts a mobster tied to a Civil War film shoot while dredging up the decades-old mystery of a murdered black man. The movie's star complicates matters.

Tavernier’s adaptation of James Lee Burke is a glum exercise in star-wattage.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, dread, slow-burn

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