Mississippi Burning (1988)

Written by Chris Gerolmo

Directed by Alan Parker

Running Time: 140 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 1988

Rating: 18 Certificate

Production Country: USA

Filmed in Colour

Starring Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe, this is a powerful fictionalised account of the murder in 1964 of three civil rights workers in America's Deep South and the FBI's subsequent investigation of Ku Klux Klan activities in the area.

The assigned agents battle to reconcile their contrasting approach to the assignment, one playing it by the book, the other relying on his instincts as a former sheriff in the South. The film won an Oscar for Best Cinematography.

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Cast

	Gene Hackman		Agent Anderson
	Willem Dafoe		Agent Ward
	Frances McDormand		Mrs. Pell
	Brad Dourif		Deputy Clinton Pell
	R. Lee Ermey		Mayor Tilman
	Gailard Sartain		Sheriff Ray Stuckey
	Stephen Tobolowsky		Clayton Townley
	Michael Rooker		Frank Bailey
	Pruitt Taylor Vince		Lester Cowans
	Badja Djola		Agent Monk
	Kevin Dunn		Agent Bird
	Frankie Faison		Eulogist
	Tom Mason		Judge
	Geoffrey Nauffts		Goatee
	Rick Zieff		Passenger
	Christopher White		Black Passenger
	Gladys Greer		Hattie
	Jake Gipson		Mose
	Dianne Lancaster		Waitress
	Stanley W. Collins		Hollis
	Daniel Winford		Fennis
	Marc Clement		Floyd Swilley
	Larry Shuler		Earl Cooke