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Mississippi Burning

Cast

Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif View All

Crew

Alan Parker (Director), Chris Gerolmo (Screenplay) View All

Release: Dec. 8th, 1988

Runtime: 2 hours, 8 minutes

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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The Rodent
Based loosely on the real life murders of three Civil Rights workers in Mississippi in 1964, albeit with a number of the facts changed around, Burning gives the viewer an incredibly exciting, disturbing and extremely well pieced together story of morality, drama, emotion and the odd hit of action to....

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Gideon58
Agent Ward (Willem Dafoe) is a buttoned-up, by-the-book, strictly by procedure kind of agent while Agent Anderson (Gene Hackman) is a little more folksy and thinks the way to find the answers they're looking for is by cozying up to the people, even though they have already formed a code of silence a....