Overview - Mississippi Burning

Overview

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.

Cast

• Name: Gene Hackman

  Character: Agent Rupert Anderson

  Popularity: 17.482

  

• Name: Willem Dafoe

  Character: Agent Alan Ward

  Popularity: 34.873

  

• Name: Frances McDormand

  Character: Mrs. Pell

  Popularity: 12.797

  

• Name: Brad Dourif

  Character: Deputy Clinton Pell

  Popularity: 19.31

  

• Name: R. Lee Ermey

  Character: Mayor Tilman

  Popularity: 6.453

  

• Name: Gailard Sartain

  Character: Sheriff Stuckey

  Popularity: 5.003

  

• Name: Stephen Tobolowsky

  Character: Townley

  Popularity: 11.746

  

• Name: Michael Rooker

  Character: Frank Bailey

  Popularity: 25.76