Top billed cast

1. 

   Gene Hackman

   Agent Rupert Anderson

2. 

   Willem Dafoe

   Agent Alan Ward

3. 

   Frances McDormand

   Mrs. Pell

4. 

   Brad Dourif

   Deputy Clinton Pell

5. 

   R. Lee Ermey

   Mayor Tilman

6. 

   Gailard Sartain

   Sheriff Stuckey

7. 

   Stephen Tobolowsky

   Townley

8. 

   Michael Rooker

   Frank Bailey

9. 

   Pruitt Taylor Vince

   Lester Cowens

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Reviews

A review by kevin2019

Written by kevin2019 on 2024-04-19

"Mississippi Burning" has both insight and intelligence and it is an incredibly uncompromising scrutinization of how racism blighted American society and it is frightening to think the residents of Jessop in Mississippi possess minds much smaller than their town. This film also prompts you to seriously examine your own conscience in relation to the matter of the race issue, but how many people will actually be enthusiastically prepared to carry out such a thing? And how many of us will be shocked to discover something of Mayor Tilman in ourselves: we know all about what is going on and yet we ...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$15,000,000.00

Revenue
$34,604,000.00

Keywords

• suicide
• sheriff
• police
• funeral
• ku klux klan
• mississippi river
• shotgun
• fbi
• deputy sheriff
• motel
• u.s. navy
• rope
• burning cross
• based on true story
• murder
• racism
• dramatic
• callous
• compassionate
• disheartening
• empathetic
• harsh
• tragic