Mississippi Burning
When three civil rights workers go missing in a small Mississippi town, FBI agents with wildly different styles, Alan Ward and Rupert Anderson, are sent in to investigate. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his former Sheriff partner.
5 July 1960, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
18 December 1946, Waco, Texas, USA
7 August 1942, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
22 July 1955, Appleton, Wisconsin, USA
4 August 1950, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
18 September 1946, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
9 April 1948, Brooklyn, New York, USA
1 May 1976, Walnut, California, USA
23 September 1949, Newark, New Jersey, USA
3 February 1947, Greenwood, Mississippi, USA
7 May 1925, Los Angeles, California, USA
June 03, 2005
Improbable re-enactment of an investigation into long-ago outbreak of hate crimes.
June 24, 2006
For once, Parker directs without depending on flashy visual tropes.
October 25, 2016
Violence, profanity, lots of tension in Jim Crow crime drama
July 14, 2004
Well-acted, compelling, good script. Good message.
March 29, 2009
Slick, well-acted thriller that nonetheless distorts the facts and looks at the civil rights movement from a strictly white perspective
June 17, 2008
Parker pushes the picture along at a fervent clip, with the character scenes back-to-back with chases or violence.
January 01, 2000
"Mississippi Burning" surveys the geography of racism, sheds light on the dark night of the soul.
February 11, 2008
Not anywhere as good as it should be.
July 25, 2002
Hackman delivers some of the best work of his career. And this guy's been doing it for 30 years.
January 01, 2000
"Mississippi Burning" feels like a movie made from the inside out, a movie that knows the ways and people of its small Southern city so intimately that, having seen it, I know the place I'd go for a cup of coffee and the place I'd steer clear from.
July 15, 2003
Starts out as a vivid portrait of the Civil Rights era and ends up a cop drama in which vengeful anger is used against racist killers.
January 01, 2000
"Mississippi Burning" speeds down the complicated, painful path of civil rights in search of a good thriller.
