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Plot Summary for
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)
This panoramic tale of Savannah's eccentricities focuses on a murder and the subsequent
trial of Jim Williams: self made man, art collector, antiques dealer, bon vivant and
semi-closeted homosexual. John Kelso a magazine reporter finds himself in Savannah amid
the beautiful architecture and odd doings to write a feature on one of William's famous
Christmas parties. He is intrigued by Williams from the start, but his curiosity is piqued
when he meets Jim's violent, young and sexy lover, Billy. Later that night, Billy is dead,
and Kelso stays on to cover the murder trial. Along the way he encounters the
irrepressible Lady Chablais, a drag queen commedienne, Sonny Siler, lawyer to Williams,
whose famous dog UGA is the official mascot of the Georgia Bulldogs, an odd man who keeps
flies attached to mini leashes on his lapels and threatens daily to poison the water
supply, the Married Ladies Card Club, and Minerva, a spiritualist. Between being Jim's
buddy, cuddling up to a torch singer, meeting every eccentric in Savannah, participating
in midnight graveyard rituals and helping solve the mysteries surrounding Billy's murder,
Kelso has his hands full. |