Minerva, who is feeding squirrels in the park, laughs as they pass. To celebrate, he, Mandy and Lady Chablis, who is walking Uga, stroll off together for a picnic. You know that, don't you?” Later, Kelso signs a six-month lease on an apartment. “I love you, boy, but I ain’t the only one.
An overhead shot shows the two dead men lying like mirror images, then Hanson fades away.Īfter the funeral, Minerva tells Kelso he knows all he needs to know and warns him not to waste too much time on the dead.
Their eyes meet, Hanson raises his head, smiles, then resumes his position, lifeless. He imagines Hanson lying alongside him, as he was in death. Minutes later, Williams is stricken by a sudden heart attack and falls face down on the carpet. You believe what you choose, and I'll believe what I know." He watches from the window as Kelso walks away. Williams congratulates Kelso on proving his innocence.Īs Kelso is leaving town, when saying goodbye to Williams, he asks one last question for the book: Does he want to tell him what really happened? Williams replies, "Truth, like art, is in the eye of the beholder. The judge (Sonny Seiler) and jury later find Williams not guilty. īetween becoming Williams' friend, cuddling-up to torch singer Mandy Nichols ( Alison Eastwood) - also a love interest of Joe Odom ( Paul Hipp) - meeting every eccentric in Savannah, participating in midnight graveyard rituals, and helping solve the mysteries surrounding Hanson's murder, Kelso has his hands full. Hall), a spiritualist and root doctor, based on real-life Valerie Boles. Along the way, he meets some characters: the irrepressible The Lady Chablis, a transgender entertainer Luther, a man who keeps flies attached to strings on his lapels and threatens daily to poison the water supply Serena Dawes ( Dorothy Loudon), a former silent-film actress the Married Women's Card Club and Minerva ( Irma P. Kelso stays on to cover the murder trial. Long after the guests have all left, Hanson is shot dead by Williams in his office. The following night at Williams' annual Mercer House Christmas party, Kelso is guest of honor. Seiler introduces Kelso to Williams, and they take Seiler's dog, Uga IV, for a walk through Forsyth Park. Kelso visits the Armstrong Mansion offices of Sonny Seiler ( Jack Thompson), lawyer to Jim Williams. Making his way to his lodging in Monterey Square, he has a brief interaction with Billy Hanson ( Jude Law) in front of Mercer House.
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After being unable to find a taxi, Kelso gets a ride from a tour-bus driver ( Gary Anthony Williams) to Jones Street.Īfter a tour of Savannah's tourist hotspots, Kelso alights at Forsyth Park. John Kelso ( John Cusack), a magazine reporter with one book - Before the Fall - to his name, arrives in Savannah, amid beautiful architecture and odd doings, to write a feature for Town & Country on one of Williams' famous Christmas parties.
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The panoramic tale of Savannah's eccentricities focuses on a murder and the subsequent trial of Jim Williams ( Kevin Spacey), a self-made man, art collector, antiques dealer, bon vivant, and semi- closeted homosexual.
The house is now known as the Mercer Williams House Museum The alleged murder of Billy Hanson occurred in Williams' study – the bottom left room in this photograph. The film was shot entirely in Savannah, Georgia. Danny Hansford, the shooting victim in the book, is renamed Billy Hanson in the film and is portrayed by a 24-year-old Jude Law, in one of his early film roles. Three people - The Lady Chablis, Emma Kelly and Jerry Spence - play themselves, while Sonny Seiler, one of Williams' lawyers in the book, plays Judge Samuel L. Filming was permitted inside Mercer House, but action scenes were done later on a soundstage at Warner Bros. "Jack" Riley (his wife was played by Mary Alice Hendrix). Several real-life locals appear in the movie, notably in the party scene at Mercer House, including Williams' sister, Dorothy, and nieces Susan and Amanda, as well as Georgia senator John R. The multiple trials depicted in Berendt's book are combined into one trial for the film. The screenplay by John Lee Hancock was based on John Berendt's 1994 book of the same name and follows the story of an antiques dealer, Jim Williams, on trial for the murder of a male prostitute. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a 1997 American mystery thriller film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood and starring John Cusack and Kevin Spacey.
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