Overview - Mississippi Burning
Date of release

Budget
$15,000,000.00
Revenue
$34,604,000.00
Spoken Languages
- English
Production companies
Name: Orion Pictures
Production country United States of America
Name: Frederick Zollo Productions
Production country United States of America
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: 3.4252

Name: Willem Dafoe
Character: Agent Alan Ward
Popularity: 4.7555

Name: Frances McDormand
Character: Mrs. Pell
Popularity: 2.7427

Name: Brad Dourif
Character: Deputy Clinton Pell
Popularity: 2.0284

Name: R. Lee Ermey
Character: Mayor Tilman
Popularity: 1.0896

Name: Gailard Sartain
Character: Sheriff Stuckey
Popularity: 0.4686

Name: Stephen Tobolowsky
Character: Townley
Popularity: 2.4727

Name: Michael Rooker
Character: Frank Bailey
Popularity: 2.8478
