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Ghosts of Mississippi
1996
· Movie
· 130 min
C
MEANRANK
63/100
Every rating
42–71
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 42, highest is Trakt on 71. Critics average 42, everyone else 67.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A Mississippi district attorney and the widow of Medgar Evers struggle to bring a white supremacist to justice for the 1963 murder of the civil rights leader.
Details
- Director
- Rob Reiner
- Writer
- Lewis Colick
- Released
- 20 December 1996
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 130 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $30.0M
- Box office
- $13.3M
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