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Mississippi Burning

Mississippi Burning

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 8, 1988

Runtime

2h 8m

Genres

Drama, Crime

User Score

77%

Original Title

Mississippi Burning

Production Companies

Orion Pictures

Director

Alan Parker

Budget

$15,000,000

Revenue

$34,604,000

Description

Two 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.