Heaven's Prisoners is a 1996 feature film drama starring Alec Baldwin, Kelly Lynch, Mary Stuart Masterson, Teri Hatcher and Eric Roberts. It is based on a Dave Robicheaux novel of the same name by James Lee Burke. The film was directed by Phil Joanou. Harley Peyton and Scott Frank are credited with the screenplay. In the Electric Mist is a sequel to Heaven's Prisoners in which Tommy Lee Jones replaces Baldwin as Dave Robicheaux. In the sequel, Robicheaux still lives in Louisiana and has come out of retirement as an Iberia Parish sheriff's detective. A former police detective in New Orleans... and a recovering alcoholic, Dave Robicheaux is living a quiet life in the swamplands of Louisiana with his wife Annie. The couple's tranquility is shattered one day when a drug smuggler's plane crashes in the lake right before their eyes. Robicheaux succeeds in rescuing a lone survivor, a Salvadoran girl, whom he and Annie quickly adopt. With the arrival of a DEA officer named Dautrieve and an inherent connection to Bubba Rocque, the leading drug kingpin in the area and Robicheaux's childhood friend from New Iberia, Dave finds himself and his family in danger.
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| Release date: | May 17, 1996 |
| Directed by: | Phil Joanou |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 132 Minutes |
| Producer: | Albert Ruddy, Andre Morgan, Leslie Greif |
| Editor: | William Steinkamp |
| Music by: | George Fenton |
| Cinematography: | Harris Savides |
| Screenplay by: | Harley Peyton, Scott Frank |
| Estimated budget: | $25,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | Heaven's prisoners |
| Genre: | Thriller |