Mississippi Burning (1988)
Rating: 7.7/10
Duration: 128 min
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller,
Director(s): Alan Parker,
Description:
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
- Brad Dourif as Deputy Clinton Pell
- Kevin Dunn as Agent Bird
- Pruitt Taylor Vince as Lester Cowens
- Willem Dafoe as Agent Alan Ward
- Stephen Tobolowsky as Townley
- Frances McDormand as Mrs. Pell
- Gene Hackman as Agent Rupert Anderson
- Gailard Sartain as Sheriff Stuckey
- Michael Rooker as Frank Bailey
- Badja Djola as Agent Monk
- R. Lee Ermey as Mayor Tilman
- Frankie Faison as Eulogist
- Geoffrey Nauffts as Goatee
- Rick Zieff as Passenger
- Thomas B. Mason as Judge (as Tom Mason)