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Mississippi Burning

Release Date:January 27, 1989

Running Time:128 min

Genres:Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery

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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 Badja Djola Kevin Dunn Frankie Faison

Top billed cast (via TMDB).

Synopsis

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.

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