Mississippi Burning R

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  • Rated: R
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 7 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: May 8, 2001
  • Originally Released: 1988
  • Label: MGM

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Academy Awards 1988 - Best Cinematography: Peter Biziou

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 39,370
...An almost visionary intensity...
Sight and Sound
Mar 1, 1989
It's memorable for its leads' remarkable performances, and it's worth revisiting because it shines a light on a period of American history that has begun to fade a bit Full Review
Flickering Myth
Jul 2, 2019
Rating: 3/5 -- Not anywhere as good as it should be.
ColeSmithey.com
Feb 11, 2008
...Alan Parker's MISSISSIPPI BURNING does exactly what he want it to do. It moves us to outrage and horror....MISSISSIPPI BURNING'S most powerful achievement is its creation of time and place...
Los Angeles Times
Dec 9, 1988
Rating: 3.5/4 -- An electrifying watch, with Hackman delivering what might be his greatest performance. Full Review
Film Frenzy
Jun 22, 2019
Parker pushes the picture along at a fervent clip, with the character scenes back-to-back with chases or violence. Full Review
Variety
Jun 17, 2008
For once, Parker directs without depending on flashy visual tropes. Full Review
Time Out
Jun 24, 2006

Product Description:

In 1964, when three civil-rights workers, two white and one black, mysteriously disappear while driving through Mississippi, two FBI agents, Ward (Willem Dafoe) and Anderson (Gene Hackman), are sent in to investigate. While Ward is young and by the book, Anderson is a seasoned southerner comfortable with the Byzantine (and, to Ward, morally ambiguous) ways of his region. Together they sift through a variety of leads and come up empty-handed--until the town sheriff's wife (Frances McDormand) steps forward and reveals some surprising information. In order to solve the case, the two contrasting agents must not only overcome the hostility of the local authorities and the black community but contend with their own differences as well.

A fictionalized account of one of the landmarks in the civil-rights movement, MISSISSIPPI BURNING is a swift and powerful film. Director Alan Parker, continuing his investigation of human cruelty (begun explosively in his harrowing 1978 film MIDNIGHT EXPRESS), crafts a historically poignant film that fingers the monstrosities of a virulent strain of racial intolerance in America. Dafoe and Hackman are convincing as they investigate the disappearance of the civil-rights workers and unravel the grisly web of obfuscation around a scandalous, cancerous truth very near the heart of a nation.

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  • Sales Rank: 29,510
  • UPC: 027616860996
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