Onward To The Recycle Bin! The muted bayou colors pop nicely, and the image reveals a solid depth throughout. Its effective and engaging in its first two acts but boring and confusing in its third. Alas, Image Entertainment only includes the truncated 102-minute US cut (a longer director's version was released internationally), and the final result suffers due to some choppy editing and a lame, commercialized ending. "In The Electric Mist" is the movie base on JLBs book, starring Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, and Mary Steenbergen. Write your own review. IN THE ELECTRIC MIST (director: Bertrand Tavernier; screenwriters: Mary Olson-Kromolowski, Jerzy Kromolowski/novel In The Electric Mist With Confederate Deadby James Lee Burke; cinematographer: Bruno de Keyzer; editors: Roberto Silvi/Larry Madaras; music: Marco Beltrami; cast: Tommy Lee Jones(Dave Robicheaux), Mary Steenburgen (Bootsie Robicheaux), John Goodman (‘Baby Feet’ … New Iberia Lt. Dave Robicheaux (A Stained White Radiance, 1992, etc.) Oscars Best Picture Winners Best Picture Winners Golden Globes Emmys Women's History Month STARmeter Awards San Diego Comic-Con New York Comic-Con Sundance Film Festival Toronto Int'l Film Festival Awards Central Festival Central All Events JLB channels both Faulkner and JD Sallinger in his style of writing. The vibe is very laid-back, cool, and relaxing; it’s like smoking weed with your best friends on a Friday evening after school. Have no idea if the movie is fair or not but figured I would let the the reading public know. Mixed reviews and gossip about on-set tension between Bertrand Tavernier and Tommy Lee Jones had caused me to suspect that In the Electric Mist was going to be a mess of a movie. In the Electric Mist is presented in 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen on a single-layered DVD5 disc. In the Electric Mist is just such a film, announced up front by a title that could only have come from a novel, the full version of which is the even more beguiling In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead. For all its direct-to-video status, "In the Electric Mist" looks as slick as any modern theatrical release in this 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer.