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.| Status: | Released (1988-12-08) |
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| Awards: | Won 1 Oscar. 17 wins & 25 nominations total |
| BoxOffice: | $34,603,943 |
| Screen: | Chris Gerolmo |
| Productions: | Orion Pictures |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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- 193: Gene Hackman - Agent Rupert Anderson
- 5293: Willem Dafoe - Agent Alan Ward
- 3910: Frances McDormand - Mrs. Pell
- 1370: Brad Dourif - Deputy Clinton Pell
- 8655: R. Lee Ermey - Mayor Tilman
- 2886: Gailard Sartain - Sheriff Stuckey
- 537: Stephen Tobolowsky - Townley
Crews
- 9168: Alan Parker - Director - Directing
- 18246: Chris Gerolmo - Screenplay - Writing
- 7020: Trevor Jones - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 10717: Peter Biziou - Director of Photography - Camera
- 2979955: Brenda Kalosh - Second Assistant Director - Directing
- 6187: Aldric La'Auli Porter - First Assistant Director - Directing
- 91092: Danny Michael - Sound Recordist - Sound
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"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 promp ....
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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 ....
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