Movie
Mississippi Burning
Drama film with a runtime of 125 minutes, released in 1988. Presented in English.
At a Glance
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 Dafoe (younger, idealistic). A Southerner himself, Hackman charms and cajoles his way through the tight-lipped residents of a dusty Mississippi town while Dafoe acts upon the evidence gleaned by his partner. Hackman solves the case by exerting his influence upon beauty-parlor worker Frances McDormand, who wishes to exact revenge for the beatings inflicted upon her by her Klan-connected husband Brad Dourif. Many critics took the film to task for its implication that the Civil Rights movement might never have gained momentum without its white participants; nor were the critics happy that the FBI was shown to utilize tactics as brutal as the Klan's. The title Mississippi Burning is certainly appropriate: nearly half the film is taken up with scenes of smoke and flame.
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Cast
- Gene Hackman
- Willem Dafoe
- Frances McDormand
- Brad Dourif
- R. Lee Ermey
- Gailard Sartain
- Stephen Tobolowsky
- Michael Rooker
- Pruitt Taylor Vince
- Kevin Dunn
- Badja Djola
- Frankie R. Faison
- Tom Mason
- Geoffrey Nauffts
- Rick Zieff
- Gladys Greer
- Howard Feuer
- Jake Gipson
- Dianne Lancaster
- Stanley W. Collins
- Daniel Winford
- Marc Clement
- Larry Shuler
- Stephen Bridgewater
- Bob Penny
- James F. Moore
- Park Overall
- Juliet Taylor
- Darius McCrary
- Lou Walker
- Billie Jean Young
- Pat Funderburk
- George Mason
- Charles Franzen
- Harry S. Franklin
- Jesse Merle Speaks
- Simeon Teague
- Tonea Stewart
- Harry Quick
- Robert F. Colesberry
- Frederick Zollo
- Judy Sasser
- Ralnardo Davis
- Paul Saveles
- Tobin Bell
- Daniel Chapman
- Rick Washburn
- Robert Glaudini
- Ken Magee
- E.A. Thrall
- Bernice Poindexter
- Brenda Dunlap
- Lannie Spann McBride
- Georgia F. Wise
- Barry Davis Jim Sr.
- John P. Fertitta
- John Fertitta
- Dan Desmond
- Alisa R. Patrick
- Barbara Gibson
- Linda Fuller
- George Isbell
- Rick Washburne
- Ethel L. Mayes
- James Arnold Mayes
- Virginia Bennett
- James Lloyd
- Cullen Gilliland
- Zeke Davidson
- Mark Jeffrey Miller
- Ed Geldart
- Mert Hatfield
- James Eric
- Ron De Roxtra
- Doug Jackson
- Gary Moody
- Robert Erickson
- John Brook
- Geoffrey Kirkland
- Chris Gerolmo
- Robert Litt
- Howard Feuer
- David Forrest
- Stan Parks
- Richard C. Kline
- Peter Biziou
- Elliot Tyson
- Bill Phillips
- John Willett
- Aude Bronson-Howard
- Gerry Hambling
- Rick Kline
- Jim Erickson
- Alan Parker
- Danny Michael
- Philip Harrison
- Chris Geroimo
- Juliet Taylor
- John Robotham
