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Mississippi Burning

Orion Pictures

Frederick Zollo Productions

United States of America

English

Gene Hackman

Willem Dafoe

Frances McDormand

Brad Dourif

R. Lee Ermey

Gailard Sartain

Stephen Tobolowsky

Michael Rooker

Pruitt Taylor Vince

Badja Djola

Kevin Dunn

Frankie Faison

Thomas B. Mason

Geoffrey Nauffts

Rick Zieff

Christopher White

Gladys Greer

Jake Gipson

Dianne Lancaster

Stanley W. Collins

Daniel Winford

Marc Clement

Larry Shuler

Stephen Bridgewater

Bob Penny

James F. Moore

Park Overall

Georgia F. Wise

Lois Allen

Barry Davis Jim, Sr.

Dan Desmond

Darius McCrary

Lou Walker

Billie Jean Young

Alisa R. Patrick

Barbara Gibson

Pat Funderburk

Tobin Bell

Mark Jeffrey Miller

John P. Fertitta

Charles Franzen

Tonea Stewart

Robert F. Colesberry

Frederick Zollo

Ron De Roxtra

Doug Jackson

Gary Moody

Robert Erickson

Ed Geldart

Mert Hatfield

James Eric

Daniel Chapman

Rick Washburn

Robert Glaudini

Ken Magee

Paul Henderson

Ralph Pruitt Vaughn

Jesse Merle Speaks

Simeon Teague

Brenda Dunlap

E.A. Thrall

Kenneth Magee

Alan Parker

Chris Gerolmo

Trevor Jones

Peter Biziou

Brenda Kalosh

Aldric La'Auli Porter

Danny Michael

Roger Dietz

E.W. Bradford

David Brace

James C. Feng

Stewart 'Polar Bear' Shaw

Anthony Starbuck

Steve Arnold

John Bromell

Elliot Tyson

Rick Kline

Jerry G. Henery

Mike Roberts

Eamonn O'Keeffe

Ron Stone

Gretchen Rau

Barbara Harris

Carol D. Bonnefil

Glenn Cunningham

Cynthia L. Hamilton

Robert J. Litt

Judith Lyn Brown

Les Percy

Rick Davis

Bill Phillips

Hal Sanders

Bruce Lacey

David Grannis

John Phillips

Mike Moad

Gary Burritt

Jerry Jackson

Richard E. Butler

Ellen Lutter

Gerry Hambling

Paul LeBlanc

Philip Harrison

Mayin Lo

Paul Hulme

John Willett

Tom Razzano

Howard Feuer

Juliet Taylor

John Robotham

Geoffrey Kirkland

David Forrest

Jim Erickson

Maida N. Morgan

Aude Bronson-Howard

Stan Parks

Steve Kelso

David Linck

Robin Squibb

Bob Leitelt

Dennis J. Lootens

Nicholas Paleologos

Willie Mann

Pieter Hubbard

Helen P. Butler

David Appleby

Kym Washington Longino

"Mississippi Burning" has both insight and intelligence and it is an incredibly uncompromising scrutinization of how racism blighted American society and it is frightening to think the residents of Jessop in Mississippi possess minds much smaller than their town. This film also prompts you to seriously examine your own conscience in relation to the matter of the race issue, but how many people will actually be enthusiastically prepared to carry out such a thing? And how many of us will be shocked to discover something of Mayor Tilman in ourselves: we know all about what is going on and yet we choose to do nothing about it? That is the real lasting power of this superb film and that is why it will continue to have great longevity and deservedly so.

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When three men go missing from their small-town Mississippi home, the FBI sends a team to investigate. "Anderson" (Gene Hackman) is very much the more hands-on of the pair leading the team, with "Ward" (Willem Dafoe) more inclined to play by the book. Their arrival exposes them to an open culture of racial hatred that's not only tolerated by the local sheriff "Stuckey" (Gailard Sartain) but enthusiastically supported by his deputy "Pell" (Brad Dourif). Their arrival only seems to empower the bigots as more Negro property is trashed or razed to the ground and the people themselves subjected to increasingly dangerous violence. The audience watching this know the local dynamic and who is pulling the strings, so the thrust of this rather potent look at the ghastliness going on here comes as we follow the differing styles of policing these men use to get to the bottom of things - and in a way that will make the equally complicit judicial system sit up and take note. With a media carnival only fanning the flames and tempers flying on both sides, the agents put into place a complex sting operation to turn the weapons of these intimidators into the very things that will hopefully entrap them. Hackman and Dafoe make for a formidable coupling in this well written and presented thriller that shines an unashamed light on the toxic attitudes of the white population whose concern for the missing men amounted to little more than "they got whet they deserved". Dourif is also on good form as his truly odious character emerges - not just against his black neighbours, but against his own wife (Frances McDormand) too. Alan Parker and Chris Gerolmo have created a palpably criminal scenario here and the ensemble deliver well that sense of fear, loathing and superiority. The photography captures well this increasingly menacing, dark and swamp-infested environment and by the denouement I did feel that this was all a perfectly plausible train of events in the mid-1960s USA.

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Gene Hackman

Willem Dafoe

Frances McDormand

Brad Dourif

R. Lee Ermey

Gailard Sartain

Stephen Tobolowsky

Michael Rooker

Pruitt Taylor Vince

Badja Djola

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