Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
- Director: Clint Eastwood
- Writer: John Berendt; John Lee Hancock
- Producer: Clint Eastwood; Michael Maurer
CGiii Comment
A gay hairdresser, a dead hustler, a drag queen...and, Kevin Spacey playing a gay millionaire...
A highly accomplished film by Mr Eastwood - but, and there are a few buts - it lacks a passion, an intensity which should have made this film shine - it only twinkles.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
This panoramic tale of Savannah's eccentricities focuses on a murder and the subsequent trial of Jim Williams: self made man, art collector, antiques dealer, bon vivant and semi-closeted homosexual. John Kelso a magazine reporter finds himself in Savannah amid the beautiful architecture and odd doings to write a feature on one of William's famous Christmas parties. He is intrigued by Williams from the start, but his curiosity is piqued when he meets Jim's violent, young and sexy lover, Billy. Later that night, Billy is dead, and Kelso stays on to cover the murder trial. Along the way he encounters the irrepressible Lady Chablis, a drag queen commedienne, Sonny Seiler, lawyer to Williams, whose famous dog UGA is the official mascot of the Georgia Bulldogs, an odd man who keeps flies attached to mini leashes on his lapels and threatens daily to poison the water supply, the Married Ladies Card Club, and Minerva, a spiritualist.
Cast & Characters
John Cusack as John Kelso;
Kevin Spacey as Jim Williams;
Jack Thompson as Sonny Seiler;
Irma P. Hall as Minerva;
Jude Law as Billy Hanson;
Alison Eastwood as Mandy Nicholls;
Paul Hipp as Joe Odom;
Lady Chablis as Chablis Deveau;
Dorothy Loudon as Serena Dawes;
Anne Haney as Margaret Williams;
Kim Hunter as Betty Harty;
Geoffrey Lewis as Luther Driggers;
Richard Herd as Henry Skerridge;
Leon Rippy as Detective Boone;
Bob Gunton as Finley Largent