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Mississippi Burning
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Mississippi Burning is a 1988 American drama and crime film directed by Alan Parker. The English-language production was written by Chris Gerolmo and produced by Robert F. Colesberry. The cast includes Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, R. Lee Ermey, and Michael Rooker. Trevor Jones composed the score, while Peter Biziou served as director of photography and Gerry Hambling as film editor. Orion Pictures produced and distributed the movie, which was filmed in Alabama and set in Mississippi.
The film has a runtime of 127 or 128 minutes and carries an R rating. It received a Metascore of 65 and an IMDb rating of 7.8. The movie was nominated for several Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actress. It won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, the National Board of Review Award for Best Film, and a place in the National Board of Review Top Ten Films.
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Film · TMDB
7.7Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.
Cast
- Gene Hackman as Agent Rupert Anderson
- Willem Dafoe as Agent Alan Ward
- Frances McDormand as Mrs. Pell
- Brad Dourif as Deputy Clinton Pell
- R. Lee Ermey as Mayor Tilman
- Gailard Sartain as Sheriff Stuckey
Themes
- suicide
- sheriff
- police
- funeral
- ku klux klan
- mississippi river
- shotgun
- fbi
- deputy sheriff
- motel
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Ratings
IMDb
7.8/10
125,709 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
79%
Metacritic
65/100
- Year
- 1988
- Runtime
- 128 min
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- Won 1 Oscar. 17 wins & 25 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Alan Parker
- Written by
- Chris Gerolmo
- Produced by
- Frederick Zollo Robert F. Colesberry
- Starring
- Gene Hackman Willem Dafoe
- Cinematography
- Peter Biziou
- Edited by
- Gerald Hambling
- Music by
- Trevor Jones
- Distributed by
- Orion Pictures
- Release dates
- December 2, 1988 ( 1988-12-02 ) ( Washington ) December 9, 1988 ( 1988-12-09 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 128 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $15 million
- Box office
- $34.6 million
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Encyclopedic overview
Mississippi Burning is a 1988 American crime thriller film directed by Alan Parker and written by Chris Gerolmo that is loosely based on the 1964 investigation into the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in Neshoba County, Mississippi. It stars Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe as two FBI agents investigating the disappearance of three civil rights activists in fictional Jessup County, Mississippi, who are met with hostility by the town's residents, local police, and the Ku Klux Klan.
Gerolmo began writing the script in 1986 after researching the 1964 murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner. He and producer Frederick Zollo presented it to Orion Pictures, and the studio hired Parker to direct. The writer and director had disputes over the script, and Orion allowed Parker to make uncredited rewrites. The film was shot in a number of locations in Mississippi and Alabama, with principal photography from March to May 1988.
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