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15/04/2009 Thriller, Drama, Crime, Mystery 1h 57m
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NO ONE CAN ESCAPE THE SINS OF THE PAST

Overview

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.

  1. Bertrand Tavernier

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Tommy Lee Jones

    Dave Robicheaux

  2. John Goodman

    Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni

  3. Peter Sarsgaard

    Elrod Sykes

  4. Mary Steenburgen

    Bootsie Robicheaux

  5. Kelly Macdonald

    Kelly Drummond

  6. Justina Machado

    Rosie Gomez

  7. Ned Beatty

    Twinky LeMoyne

  8. James Gammon

    Ben Hebert

  9. Pruitt Taylor Vince

    Lou Girard

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A review by Kenneth Axel Carlsson
Written by Kenneth Axel Carlsson on 2014-12-31
A woman is found murdered in the swamp somewhere in the south. A brutal murder, quite possibly a serial killer. A policeman is investigating, and while he does that, another body is found, but this one nothing but bones. This guy (a black guy) was killed 40 years ago, and the policeman suddenly remembers that he saw this murder happening when he was a kid. There doesn't seem to be any sort of connection between the murders, except the man investigating both of them.

Tommy Lee Jones plays the old cop who investigates the murders in the swamp. He is a man fighting his own demons, meaning mos...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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