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Jan 27, 1989 · Mississippi Burning: Directed by Alan Parker. With Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif. Two F.B.I. Agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists.
- (111K)
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Alan Parker
- 1989-01-27
Budget. $15 million. Box office. $34.6 million [1] Mississippi Burning is a 1988 American crime thriller film directed by Alan Parker and written by Chris Gerolmo that is loosely based on the 1964 murder investigation of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in Mississippi.
Movies often take place in towns, but they rarely seem to live in them. Alan Parker’s “Mississippi Burning” feels like a movie made from the inside out, a movie that knows the ways and people of its small Southern city so intimately that, having seen it, I know the place I’d go for a cup of coffee and the place I’d steer clear from. This acute sense of time and place - rural ...
Mississippi Burning draws on real-life tragedy to impart a worthy message with the measured control of an intelligent drama and the hard-hitting impact of a thriller. When a group of civil rights ...
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- Alan Parker
- R
- Gene Hackman
Mississippi Burning is 11289 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The movie has moved up the charts by 5837 places since yesterday. In the United States, it is currently more popular than Arsenal but less popular than Garage Sale Mystery: All That Glitters.
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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 former Sheriff partner. — Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca>.
