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Mississippi Burning

1964. When America was at war with itself.

1988 · R · 2h 8m

Directed by Alan Parker

7.7

TMDB audience score
2,060 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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
    Eulogist

  • Thomas B. Mason
    Judge (as Tom Mason)

  • Geoffrey Nauffts
    Goatee

  • Rick Zieff
    Passenger

  • Christopher White
    Black Passenger

  • Gladys Greer
    Hattie

  • Jake Gipson
    Mose