Mississippi Burning (Blu-ray) PG
1964. When America was at war with itself.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 2 hours, 8 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: June 18, 2019
- Originally Released: 1988
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Gene Hackman & Willem Dafoe | |
Performer: | Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, R. Lee Ermey, Gailard Sartain, Stephen Tobolowsky, Michael Rooker, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Kevin Dunn, Frankie Faison, Rick Zieff & Park Overall | |
Directed by | Alan Parker | |
Edited by | Gerry Hambling | |
Screenwriting by | Chris Gerolmo | |
Composition by | Trevor Jones | |
Produced by | Frederick Zollo & Robert F. Colesberry | |
Director of Photography: | Peter Biziou |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1988 -
Best Cinematography: Peter Biziou
Entertainment Reviews:
Parker pushes the picture along at a fervent clip, with the character scenes back-to-back with chases or violence.
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Variety
...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
Rating: 0/4 --
Unfortunately, the central narrative premise of Mississippi Burning sets up the FBI as the sole heroic defender of the victims of southern racism in 1964, which is more than a little disgusting.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 4/5 --
Violence, profanity, lots of tension in Jim Crow crime drama
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Common Sense Media
Included in The New York Times 10 BEST FILMS OF 1988
New York Times
...Insistent....MISSISSIPPI BURNING is first-rate.
New York Times
"Mississippi Burning" surveys the geography of racism, sheds light on the dark night of the soul.
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Washington Post
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.
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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- UPC: 738329237738
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