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- Mississippi Burning doesn't shy away from portraying the brutality that occurred in Mississippi during the investigation into the murders of three civil rights workers. However, by choosing to focus on a fictionalized version told from the FBI's perspective, they diminished the authenticity and integrity of the film.
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Mississippi Burning: Directed by Alan Parker. With Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif. Two F.B.I. Agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists.
- (113K)
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Alan Parker
- 1989-01-27
Mississippi Burning is a very hard film to look at but a very truthful and gritty look at racism in southern Mississippi during the Civil Rights era. The story details FBI agents Rupert Anderson(Gene Hackman)and Alan Ward(Willem Dafoe) search for the killers an African-American male and two Jewish males.
Though its credibility is undermined by a fanciful ending, Mississippi Burning captures much of the truth in its telling of the impact of a 1964 FBI probe into the murders of three civil rights workers.
But “Mississippi Burning” is not a documentary, nor does it strain to present a story based on the facts. This movie is a gritty police drama, bloody, passionate and sometimes surprisingly funny about the efforts of two FBI men to lead an investigation into the disappearances.
When a group of civil rights workers goes missing in a small Mississippi town, FBI agents Alan Ward (Willem Dafoe) and Rupert Anderson (Gene Hackman) are sent in to investigate.
- (28)
- Alan Parker
- R
- Gene Hackman
Mississippi Burning is a 1988 American crime thriller film directed by Alan Parker and written by Chris Gerolmo that is loosely based on the 1964 murder investigation of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in Mississippi.
Three young civil rights activists are murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi in 1969 and the largest FBI manhunt is sparked off. by Barry McIlheney | Published on 01 01 2000
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