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     Gene Hackman

     Agent Rupert Anderson
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     Willem Dafoe

     Agent Alan Ward
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     Frances McDormand

     Mrs. Pell
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     Brad Dourif

     Deputy Clinton Pell
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     R. Lee Ermey

     Mayor Tilman
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     Gailard Sartain

     Sheriff Ray Stuckey

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2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Mississippi_BurningMississippi Burning - Wikipedia

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   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.

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   Is 'Mississippi Burning' a true story?

   • A few miles outside of Philadelphia the deputy stopped their car again--this time after a wild chase--and turned them over to a group of Neshoba County Klansmen. Their bodies wouldn't be found until over a month later by FBI agents. That's the real story. "Mississippi Burning" is a close dramatization of it. I watched in both disgust and surprise.

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   Is 'Mississippi Burning' a good movie?

   • And we can feel something breaking free, the fresh air rushing in, when the back of that racism is broken. “Mississippi Burning” is the best American film of 1988 and a likely candidate for the Academy Award as the year’s best picture.

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   What does 'Mississippi Burning' feel like?

   • 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.

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   What happened in 'Mississippi' based on a true story?

   • Off screen, you hear gunshots of the men being murdered and the screen says "Mississippi, 1964". FBI agents Ward and Anderson are driving to the fictional Jessup County, Mississippi (Neshoba County in reality) to investigate the missing men.

   Mississippi Burning (1988) - Plot - IMDb

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4. www.imdb.com › title › tt0095647Mississippi Burning (1988) - Plot - IMDb

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   Three young men, two whites and one black, are driving down a rural Mississippi road at twilight. They are James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, civil rights workers who in the summer of 1964 were working to get blacks voting rights in Philadelphia, Mississippi.

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6. www.gradesaver.com › mississippi-burning › studyMississippi Burning Summary | GradeSaver

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   The Mississippi Burning Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community members like you.

7. www.fbi.gov › history › famous-casesMississippi Burning — FBI

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   Jun 21, 2022 · The murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964 turned into one of Bureau’s biggest investigations of the era.

8. www.imdb.com › title › tt0095647Mississippi Burning (1988) - IMDb

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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.

   • 7.8/10 (112K)
   • Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

   • Director: Alan Parker
   • Release Date: 1989-01-27

9. www.rogerebert.com › reviews › mississippi-burning-1988Mississippi Burning movie review (1988) | Roger Ebert

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   This movie is a gritty police drama, bloody, passionate and sometimes surprisingly funny about the efforts of two FBI men to lead an investigation into the disappearances.

10. collider.com › mississippi-burning-movie-true-storyThe Horrific True Story Behind ‘Mississippi Burning' - Collider

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    Jan 30, 2024 · Mississippi Burning is a popular crime thriller film from 1988, loosely based on the true story of three civil rights activists who were murdered in Mississippi in 1964. The film depicts the...