In the Electric Mist
“NO ONE CAN ESCAPE THE SINS OF THE PAST”
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.
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Cast
26 people
Tommy Lee Jones
Dave Robicheaux
Known for
Men in Black
No Country for Old Men
John Goodman
Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni
Known for
Monsters, Inc.
10 Cloverfield Lane
Peter Sarsgaard
Elrod Sykes
Known for
Orphan
Green Lantern
Mary Steenburgen
Bootsie Robicheaux
Known for
Back to the Future Part III
The Last Man on Earth
Kelly Macdonald
Kelly Drummond
Known for
Brave
Boardwalk Empire
Justina Machado
Rosie Gomez
Known for
Six Feet Under
The Purge: Anarchy
Ned Beatty
Twinky LeMoyne
Known for
Rango
Toy Story 3
James Gammon
Ben Hebert
Known for
The Iron Giant
The Cell
Pruitt Taylor Vince
Lou Girard
Known for
The Legend of 1900
Constantine
Levon Helm
General John Bell Hood
Known for
Coal Miner's Daughter
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Buddy Guy
Sam 'Hogman' Patin
Known for
Sinners
Joe Q Bretz
Digital Producer
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Bertrand Tavernier Director · Jerzy Kromolowski Screenplay Mary Olson-Kromolowski Screenplay
Director
Bertrand Tavernier
Screenplay
Jerzy Kromolowski
Screenplay
Mary Olson-Kromolowski
Author
James Lee Burke
Composer
Marco Beltrami
Cinematographer
Bruno de Keyzer
Editor
Roberto Silvi
Editor
Thierry Derocles
Editor
Larry Madaras
Production designer
Merideth Boswell
Costume designer
Kathy Kiatta
Worldwide gross $8M · Budget $17M · United States release March 3, 2009
Box office
Budget
$17,000,000
Worldwide gross
$8,000,000
Gross vs. budget
0.5×
Production
Little Bear
Production
Ithaca Pictures
Production
TF1 International
Production
France · United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
Germany · February 7, 2009
Premiere · Berlin International Film Festival
United States · March 3, 2009
Physical · DVD
France · April 15, 2009
Theatrical
United States
February 18, 2009 · Premiere · New Iberia, Louisiana
Australia
July 17, 2010 · TV
Belgium
April 22, 2009 · Theatrical
Brazil
May 12, 2009 · Physical · DVD
Czechia
December 7, 2009 · Theatrical
Finland
August 24, 2009 · Premiere · Espoo Film Festival
France
February 28, 2026 · TV · T18
September 7, 2026 · TV · T18
Germany
May 28, 2010 · Physical · DVD
Greece
June 25, 2009 · Theatrical
Hungary
October 6, 2009 · Physical · DVD
Italy
July 12, 2011 · Physical · DVD
Japan
October 7, 2011 · Physical · DVD
Kuwait
March 11, 2010 · Theatrical
Netherlands
July 16, 2009 · Theatrical
South Korea
December 17, 2009 · Theatrical
Spain
March 11, 2011 · Theatrical
Sweden
August 12, 2009 · Physical · DVD
Switzerland
April 15, 2009 · Theatrical · French
October 16, 2009 · Theatrical · Italian
Türkiye
April 6, 2009 · Premiere · Istanbul Film Festival
United Kingdom
November 21, 2016 · Physical · DVD
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