1988
Mississippi Burning
TMDB 7.7
2h 8m · 8 Dec 1988
Drama · Crime
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.
Directed byAlan Parker
Cast
- Gene HackmanAgent Rupert Anderson
- Willem DafoeAgent Alan Ward
- Frances McDormandMrs. Pell
- Brad DourifDeputy Clinton Pell
- R. Lee ErmeyMayor Tilman
- Gailard SartainSheriff Stuckey
- Stephen TobolowskyTownley
- Michael RookerFrank Bailey
- Pruitt Taylor VinceLester Cowens
- Badja DjolaAgent Monk
