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Mississippi Burning, 1988

Starring: Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe

Directed by: Alan Parker

Written by: Chris Gerolmo

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 128 min

MPAA Rating:

Rating:7.8

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The mood of Mississippi Burning is disturbing, tense, and captivating. The plot centers around racism, an investigation, and law enforcement. It is a drama, thriller, and period movie. Stylistically, Mississippi Burning is talky. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. Mississippi Burning takes place, at least partly, in a small town. The setting is Mississippi. It happens in the 1960s. Mississippi Burning is originally a true story. The movie is known for being critically acclaimed and an Oscar winner. Note that it includes profanity and violent content.

Summary of Mississippi Burning

In 1964, when three civil-rights workers, two white and one black, mysteriously disappear while driving through Mississippi, two FBI agents, Ward (Willem Dafoe) and Anderson (Gene Hackman), are sent in to investigate. While Ward is young and by the book, Anderson is a seasoned southerner comfortable with the Byzantine (and, to Ward, morally ambiguous) ways of his region. Together they sift through a variety of leads and come up empty-handed--until the town sheriff's wife (Frances McDormand) steps forward and reveals some surprising information. In order to solve the case, the two contrasting agents must not only overcome the hostility of the local authorities and the black community but contend with their own differences as well.

A fictionalized account of one of the landmarks in the civil-rights movement, MISSISSIPPI BURNING is a swift and powerful film. Director Alan Parker, continuing his investigation of human cruelty (begun explosively in his harrowing 1978 film MIDNIGHT EXPRESS), crafts a historically poignant film that fingers the monstrosities of a virulent strain of racial intolerance in America. Dafoe and Hackman are convincing as they investigate the disappearance of the civil-rights workers and unravel the grisly web of obfuscation around a scandalous, cancerous truth very near the heart of a nation.

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Language:	English
Country:	USA
Release date:	9 December 1988
Runtime:	128 min
Awards:	Academy Awards

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Peter Biziou for Best Cinematography at the 1988 Academy Awards

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Gene Hackman

as Agent Rupert Anderson

Willem Dafoe

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TV Guide

Mississippi Burning is visually splendid. Director Parker and his crew have created a film that is unquestionably watchable. As a history lesson, however, it's laughable. Full Review

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Variety

Though its credibility is undermined by a fanciful ending, Mississippi Burning captures much of the truth in its telling of the impact of a 1964 FBI probe into the murders of three civil rights workers. Full Review

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