Mississippi Burning
1964. When America was at war with itself.
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12/8/1988Runtime
128 minsOverview
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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A methodical, unflinching look at institutional racism and small-town complicity in violence, told through the friction between two FBI agents pursuing a murder that the entire town seems determined to protect. It's a film about how power structures protect themselves, and how justice must be forced through that resistance.
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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
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