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Mississippi Burning

R
Movie
1988
2h 8m
English
Drama, Crime
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.
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7.9
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Mississippi Burning (1988) on IMDb
CRITIC SCORE
72

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Gene Hackman
Agent Rupert Anderson
Willem Dafoe
Agent Alan Ward
Brad Dourif
Deputy Clinton Pell
R Lee Ermey
Mayor Tilman
Gailard Sartain
Sheriff Stuckey
Michael Rooker
Frank Bailey
Pruitt Taylor Vince
Lester Cowens
Badja Djola
Agent Monk
Kevin Dunn
Agent Bird
Thomas B Mason
Judge (as Tom Mason)
Rick Zieff
Passenger
Christopher White
Black Passenger
Marc Clement
Floyd Swilley
Larry Shuler
Earl Cooke
Bob Penny
Curtis Foy
Directed By: Alan Parker
Written By: Chris Gerolmo (Screenplay)

Featured Comments/Tips

Allie Am says...
9 years ago
Movie totally got me. It is a tough topic and a brilliant movie that makes you cry if you allow yourself to..
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kubricksmuse says...
11 years ago
Honestly, I don't like "slave movies", but it was pretty good.
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siggi963 says...
2 months ago
A classic in anti-racist movies in the US. The movie is carried by a good story and excellent performances by namely Hackman, Dafoe and McDormand.
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jullianaamorim says...
4 years ago
Another white film about black people. There's not much to expect other than that.
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kevin2019
a week ago
"Mississippi Burning" has both insight and intelligence and it is an incredibly uncompromising scrutinization of how racism blighted American society and it is frightening to think the residents of Jessop in Mississippi possess minds much smaller than their town. This film also prompts you to seriou More
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CinemaSerf
a week ago
When three men go missing from their small-town Mississippi home, the FBI sends a team to investigate. "Anderson" (Gene Hackman) is very much the more hands-on of the pair leading the team, with "Ward" (Willem Dafoe) more inclined to play by the book. Their arrival exposes them to an open culture of More
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