Overview - Mississippi Burning

Date of release

Genres

  • Drama
  • Crime
  • Mystery
  • Thriller

Runtime: 128 minutes

Homepage: Mississippi Burning

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: 2.0283

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  • Name: Willem Dafoe

    Character: Agent Alan Ward

    Popularity: 4.1288

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  • Name: Frances McDormand

    Character: Mrs. Pell

    Popularity: 1.8714

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  • Name: Brad Dourif

    Character: Deputy Clinton Pell

    Popularity: 2.189

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  • Name: R. Lee Ermey

    Character: Mayor Tilman

    Popularity: 1.2529

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  • Name: Gailard Sartain

    Character: Sheriff Stuckey

    Popularity: 0.4596

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  • Name: Stephen Tobolowsky

    Character: Townley

    Popularity: 1.0156

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  • Name: Michael Rooker

    Character: Frank Bailey

    Popularity: 2.9137

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