When three civil rights workers go missing in a small Mississippi town, FBI agents with wildly different styles, Alan Ward and Rupert Anderson, are sent in to investigate. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his former Sheriff partner.
12 January 1919, Lynchburg, Virginia, USA
August 21, 1924 in Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA
9 June 1953, Terre Haute, Indiana, USA
3 February 1947, Greenwood, Mississippi, USA
1 June 1954, Terrell, Texas, USA
30 May 1951, Dallas, Texas, USA
20 August 1952
23 June 1957, Chicago, Illinois, USA
18 March 1950, Huntington, West Virginia, USA
7 May 1925, Los Angeles, California, USA
23 September 1949, Newark, New Jersey, USA
4 July 1944, Racine, Wisconsin, USA
24 August 1953, Hutchinson, Kansas, USA
11 December 1946, Texas, USA
March 29, 2009
Slick, well-acted thriller that nonetheless distorts the facts and looks at the civil rights movement from a strictly white perspective
January 01, 2000
"Mississippi Burning" surveys the geography of racism, sheds light on the dark night of the soul.
January 01, 2000
"Mississippi Burning" speeds down the complicated, painful path of civil rights in search of a good thriller.
June 17, 2008
Parker pushes the picture along at a fervent clip, with the character scenes back-to-back with chases or violence.
January 01, 2000
"Mississippi Burning" feels like a movie made from the inside out, a movie that knows the ways and people of its small Southern city so intimately that, having seen it, I know the place I'd go for a cup of coffee and the place I'd steer clear from.
July 14, 2004
Well-acted, compelling, good script. Good message.
July 15, 2003
Starts out as a vivid portrait of the Civil Rights era and ends up a cop drama in which vengeful anger is used against racist killers.
June 03, 2005
Improbable re-enactment of an investigation into long-ago outbreak of hate crimes.
February 11, 2008
Not anywhere as good as it should be.
July 25, 2002
Hackman delivers some of the best work of his career. And this guy's been doing it for 30 years.
June 24, 2006
For once, Parker directs without depending on flashy visual tropes.
October 25, 2016
Violence, profanity, lots of tension in Jim Crow crime drama
