Mississippi Burning
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2hrs
8mins
Directed by
Alan Parker,
Starring
Gene Hackman,
Willem Dafoe,
Frances McDormand,
Brad Dourif
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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.