In the Electric Mist (French title: Dans la brume électrique) is a 2009 French/American mystery drama film directed by Bertrand Tavernier, and written by Jerzy Kromolowski and Mary Olson-Kromolowski based on the novel In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead by James Lee Burke; it stars Tommy Lee Jones in the lead role of Louisiana police detective Dave Robicheaux.

[3] A longer director's cut version (112:23 minutes) was released in the rest of the world[4] and premiered at the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival.

[10] Iberia Parish's Sheriff Detective Dave Robicheaux is investigating the murder of a young woman, and has a chance encounter with Hollywood stars Elrod Sykes and his girlfriend Kelly Drummond.

Dave goes to investigate, while remembering a murder he had witnessed as a teenager, where a chained prisoner was shot in the swamp and disappeared into the bog.

The clues seem to point to Julie "Baby Feet" Balboni, whose ties with the mafia had caused Dave and him to drift apart and become enemies.

Dave attends a birthday party for Goldman, and though drinking Dr Pepper, becomes terribly uncoordinated during his drive home, and crashes his pickup truck, sending him off in a daze to the forest.

There, he encounters a camp of Confederate soldiers, and their commanding officer General John Bell Hood, who apparently wishes to help Dave with his journey to solve these murders.

A story from an alleged pimp corroborates a suspect, Murphy Doucet, who with his partner Twinkie Lemoyne is responsible for the murder of DeWitt Prejean, the skeleton found in the swamp.

He moves on with his life, while Baby Feet, according to Dave, was arrested for an issue that no one would have suspected, not as a mafia criminal, but as a tax dodger.

Elrod, too, moves on with his life, leaving his alcohol addiction behind; he gives Alafair a small role in the Civil War film, and claims that she had been his salvation.