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Mississippi Burning
When three civil rights workers go missing in a small Mississippi town, FBI agents with wildly different styles, Alan Ward and Rupert Anderson, are sent in to investigate. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his former Sheriff partner.
August 21, 1924 in Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA
5 July 1960, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
20 August 1952
11 December 1946, Texas, USA
23 September 1949, Newark, New Jersey, USA
25 August 1923, Carrier Mills, Illinois, USA
10 June 1949, Newport News, Virginia, USA
24 August 1956, Chicago, Illinois, USA
30 May 1951, Dallas, Texas, USA
3 February 1961
18 December 1946, Waco, Texas, USA
15 March 1957, Greeneville, Tennessee, USA
9 April 1948, Brooklyn, New York, USA
9 June 1953, Terre Haute, Indiana, USA
18 March 1950, Huntington, West Virginia, USA
7 August 1942, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
June 03, 2005
Improbable re-enactment of an investigation into long-ago outbreak of hate crimes.
July 25, 2002
Hackman delivers some of the best work of his career. And this guy's been doing it for 30 years.
July 15, 2003
Starts out as a vivid portrait of the Civil Rights era and ends up a cop drama in which vengeful anger is used against racist killers.
March 29, 2009
Slick, well-acted thriller that nonetheless distorts the facts and looks at the civil rights movement from a strictly white perspective
July 14, 2004
Well-acted, compelling, good script. Good message.
January 01, 2000
"Mississippi Burning" speeds down the complicated, painful path of civil rights in search of a good thriller.
February 11, 2008
Not anywhere as good as it should be.
June 17, 2008
Parker pushes the picture along at a fervent clip, with the character scenes back-to-back with chases or violence.
January 01, 2000
"Mississippi Burning" feels like a movie made from the inside out, a movie that knows the ways and people of its small Southern city so intimately that, having seen it, I know the place I'd go for a cup of coffee and the place I'd steer clear from.
October 25, 2016
Violence, profanity, lots of tension in Jim Crow crime drama
January 01, 2000
"Mississippi Burning" surveys the geography of racism, sheds light on the dark night of the soul.
June 24, 2006
For once, Parker directs without depending on flashy visual tropes.
