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Mississippi Burning
Two FBI agents seeking to investigate the killing of civil rights workers in the 1960s are trying to break the conspiracy of silence in a small southern town with a black-and-white racism. The FBI junior agent trains on the small town roads of his former partner. Will they be able to eliminate racism among these people? His new life began without racism.
11 December 1946, Texas, USA
10 June 1949, Newport News, Virginia, USA
1 June 1954, Terrell, Texas, USA
24 February 1953, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
18 September 1946, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
July 25, 2002
Hackman delivers some of the best work of his career. And this guy's been doing it for 30 years.October 25, 2016
Violence, profanity, lots of tension in Jim Crow crime dramaJanuary 01, 2000
"Mississippi Burning" speeds down the complicated, painful path of civil rights in search of a good thriller.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.June 03, 2005
Improbable re-enactment of an investigation into long-ago outbreak of hate crimes.February 11, 2008
Not anywhere as good as it should be.June 24, 2006
For once, Parker directs without depending on flashy visual tropes.July 14, 2004
Well-acted, compelling, good script. Good message.January 01, 2000
"Mississippi Burning" surveys the geography of racism, sheds light on the dark night of the soul.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.June 17, 2008
Parker pushes the picture along at a fervent clip, with the character scenes back-to-back with chases or violence.March 29, 2009
Slick, well-acted thriller that nonetheless distorts the facts and looks at the civil rights movement from a strictly white perspective