Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | | Cast : | John Cusack, Kevin Spacey | | Director : | Clint Eastwood | | Studio : | Warner Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Widescreen | | Released Date : | November 21, 1997 | | DVD Released Date : | February 03, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 31, 2005 | | Summary | Early Clint Eastwood movie adapted from best seller novel | Content
 | Clint Eastwood directed this murder mystery set in Savannah, Gerorgia and based on a best seller novel. Although the movie differs somewhat from the novel (because of time constraints), the basic story of the novel is well represented. John Cusack and Kevin Spacey turn in their usual brillant performances, while several lesser roles are actually played by the people portrayed in the novel (most notably "Lady Chablis"). Having visited Savannah on one occasion, I thought the movie took the audience to several interesting Savannah sites providing us with a nice glimpse of a truly picturesque city of the deep South. I would highly recommend this movie. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 28, 2005 | | Summary | Eastwood does it again (in a good way) | Content
| Why is it Jude Law always plays the same character? (well, almost always...) He must get bored of it surely. Here again we see Mr Law (in one of his earlier roles admittedly) strutting his stuff as a self absorbed, fickle, skinny pretty boy with attitude. In this case he also happens to be a rent boy, but that aside, its the same character as the one he played in AI, Alfie, the Aviator....
Ho hum. Now I have that off my chest, what about the rest of the movie? I loved it: Surreal, quirky, and with the usual spellbinding performance from Kevin Spacey, playing a delightfully morally ambiguous closet homosexual in an American deep south town, who may or may not be guilty of the coldblooded murder of his boyfriend (Law).
John Cusack plays a New York writer reporter who is commissioned to review the famous Christmas party thrown each year by the fabulousy wealthy Spacey and who becomes embroiled in the central moral dilemma of the movie.
Throw in a sassy transvetsite (the Lady Chablis), sexy love interest Alison Eastwoood and a dose of Voodoo magic and the scene is set for a thoroughly amusing and unpredictable 1 hr and 55 mins..
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| Rating | | | Date | July 23, 2005 | | Summary | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | Content
| This is an intriguing murder mystery movie, set in mystical Savannah, Georgia. Kevin Spacy, John Cousack and a very young Jude Law all play great parts. From an endearing drag queen, to the city medicine voodoo woman, the town characters in this movie keep you interested, and all offer an entertaining slant to the plot. I'd seen this before, but once again... I loved it! |
| Rating | | | Date | July 12, 2005 | | Summary | Men are all a little gay | Content
| With all the inbreeding down south I suppose explains a lot about the plot of this movie or why they lost the war. I thought it was ok buy I liked the book better. Even Clint Eastwood has to direct at least one stinker. I did enjoy the female impersonator "Chablis", he was terrific. In all fairness though this was hard material to make a movie of, and it shows. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 07, 2005 | | Summary | You messed up | Content
| I received an empty carton with no movies disc included. It was so complicated to try and get satisfaction from you that I just ate the charge and got the movie "Midnight in The Garden of Good and Evil" from someone else. |
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