Mississippi Burning
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- Synopsis
- Mississippi Burning is an all-names-changed dramatization of the Ku Klux Klan's murders of three civil rights workers in 1964. Investigating the mysterious disappearances of the three activists are FBI agents Gene Hackman (older, wiser) and Willem ......
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- Starring
- Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, R. Lee Ermey
- Director(s)
- Alan Parker
- Distributor(s)
- Orion
- MPAA Rating
- Not Yet Rated
- Runtime
- 127 min.
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Critic Reviews
Apart from its pure entertainment value - this is the best American crime movie in years - it is an important statement about a time and a condition that should not be forgotten. The Academy loves to honor prestigious movies in which long-ago crimes are rectified in far-away places. Here is a nominee with the ink still wet on its pages.Read the full review
Mississippi Burning speeds down the complicated, painful path of civil rights in search of a good thriller. Surprisingly, it finds itRead the full review
For those who know such places, Mr. Parker, who is English, evokes the texture, the gritty, fly-specked Southernness, the brooding sense of small-town menace, the racial hatred, with considerable accuracy.Read the full review
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