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Mississippi Burning (1988)
Directed by Alan Parker
“1964. When America was at war with itself.”
Drama, Crime, Mystery, Thriller · 2h 08m
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.
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
Crew
- Director
- Alan Parker
- Screenplay
- Chris Gerolmo
- Director of Photography
- Peter Biziou
- Original Music Composer
- Trevor Jones
- Editor
- Gerry Hambling
- Producer
- Robert F. Colesberry, Frederick Zollo
Details
- Release date
- 1988-12-08
- Runtime
- 2h 08m
- Genres
- Drama, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Orion Pictures, Frederick Zollo Productions
- Budget
- $15,000,000
- Box office
- $34,604,000