Mississippi Burning
Two FBI agents seeking to investigate the killing of civil rights workers in the 1960s are trying to break the conspiracy of silence in a small southern town with a black-and-white racism. The FBI junior agent trains on the small town roads of his former partner. Will they be able to eliminate racism among these people? His new life began without racism.
9 April 1948, Brooklyn, New York, USA
25 August 1923, Carrier Mills, Illinois, USA
24 August 1956, Chicago, Illinois, USA
24 August 1953, Hutchinson, Kansas, USA
10 June 1949, Newport News, Virginia, USA
6 April 1955, Jasper, Alabama, USA
15 March 1957, Greeneville, Tennessee, USA
24 February 1953, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
9 June 1953, Terre Haute, Indiana, USA
18 December 1946, Waco, Texas, USA
7 January 1926, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
1 May 1976, Walnut, California, USA
July 14, 2004
Well-acted, compelling, good script. Good message.
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.
July 25, 2002
Hackman delivers some of the best work of his career. And this guy's been doing it for 30 years.
February 11, 2008
Not anywhere as good as it should be.
January 01, 2000
"Mississippi Burning" speeds down the complicated, painful path of civil rights in search of a good thriller.
March 29, 2009
Slick, well-acted thriller that nonetheless distorts the facts and looks at the civil rights movement from a strictly white perspective
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.
June 24, 2006
For once, Parker directs without depending on flashy visual tropes.
June 03, 2005
Improbable re-enactment of an investigation into long-ago outbreak of hate crimes.
January 01, 2000
"Mississippi Burning" surveys the geography of racism, sheds light on the dark night of the soul.
October 25, 2016
Violence, profanity, lots of tension in Jim Crow crime drama
June 17, 2008
Parker pushes the picture along at a fervent clip, with the character scenes back-to-back with chases or violence.
