Mississippi Burning (1988)
 


R,2hrs 7min
Genre:Drama
Release: 1988
Director:Alan Parker
Distributor:Image Entertainment
 
Starring:
Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand
 
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
or 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. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide


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