Overview
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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Cast
 
                    Gene Hackman
Agent Rupert Anderson
 
                    Willem Dafoe
Agent Alan Ward
 
                    Frances McDormand
Mrs. Pell
 
                    Brad Dourif
Deputy Clinton Pell
 
                    R. Lee Ermey
Mayor Tilman
 
                    Gailard Sartain
Sheriff Stuckey
 
                    Stephen Tobolowsky
Townley
 
                    Michael Rooker
Frank Bailey
 
                    Pruitt Taylor Vince
Lester Cowens
 
                    Badja Djola
Agent Monk
 
                    Kevin Dunn
Agent Bird
 
                    Frankie Faison
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                    Reviews
kevin2019
"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 seriously examine your own conscience in relation to the matter of the race issue, but how many people will actually be enthusiastically prepared to carry out such a thing? And how many of us will...
Apr 19, 2024CinemaSerf
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 racial hatred that's not only tolerated by the local sheriff "Stuckey" (Gailard Sartain) but enthusiastically supported by his deputy "Pell" (Brad Dourif)...
Apr 28, 2024 
             
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                    