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Mississippi Burning

Genre:DramaCrimeMysteryThriller

Released:1988-12-08

Runtime:128

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:

Gene Hackman

Character: Agent Rupert Anderson

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Willem Dafoe

Character: Agent Alan Ward

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Frances McDormand

Character: Mrs. Pell

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Brad Dourif

Character: Deputy Clinton Pell

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R. Lee Ermey

Character: Mayor Tilman

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Gailard Sartain

Character: Sheriff Stuckey

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Stephen Tobolowsky

Character: Townley

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Michael Rooker

Character: Frank Bailey

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Pruitt Taylor Vince

Character: Lester Cowens

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Badja Djola

Character: Agent Monk

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Kevin Dunn

Character: Agent Bird

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Frankie Faison

Character: Eulogist

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Thomas B. Mason

Character: Judge (as Tom Mason)

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Geoffrey Nauffts

Character: Goatee

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Rick Zieff

Character: Passenger

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Christopher White

Character: Black Passenger

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Gladys Greer

Character: Hattie

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Jake Gipson

Character: Mose

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Dianne Lancaster

Character: Waitress

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Stanley W. Collins

Character: Hollis

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Daniel Winford

Character: Fennis

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Marc Clement

Character: Floyd Swilley

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Larry Shuler

Character: Earl Cooke

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Stephen Bridgewater

Character: Wesley Cooke

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Bob Penny

Character: Curtis Foy

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James F. Moore

Character: Barber

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Park Overall

Character: Connie

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Georgia F. Wise

Character: Beauty Parlor Woman 1

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Lois Allen

Character: Beauty Parlor Woman 2

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Barry Davis Jim, Sr.

Character: Choctaw Man

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Dan Desmond

Character: Television Commentator (voice)

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Darius McCrary

Character: Aaron Williams

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Lou Walker

Character: Vertis Williams

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Billie Jean Young

Character: Mrs. Williams

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Alisa R. Patrick

Character: Church Soloist

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Barbara Gibson

Character: Church Soloist

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Pat Funderburk

Character: Pell Maid

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Tobin Bell

Character: Agent Stokes

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Mark Jeffrey Miller

Character: Fire Bomber

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John P. Fertitta

Character: T.V. Commentator

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Charles Franzen

Character: Interviewer & Reporter

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Tonea Stewart

Character: Mrs. Walker

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Robert F. Colesberry

Character: Cameraman

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Frederick Zollo

Character: Reporter

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Ron De Roxtra

Character: Reporter

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Doug Jackson

Character: Reporter

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Gary Moody

Character: Reporter

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Robert Erickson

Character: Reporter

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Ed Geldart

Character: Fire Bomber

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Mert Hatfield

Character: Fire Bomber

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James Eric

Character: Fire Bomber

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Daniel Chapman

Character: Agent MacMillan

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Rick Washburn

Character: Agent Brodsky

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Robert Glaudini

Character: Agent Nash

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Ken Magee

Character: Agent Reilly

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Paul Henderson

Character: Local #1 (uncredited)

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Ralph Pruitt Vaughn

Character: Peckerwood (uncredited)

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Jesse Merle Speaks

Character: Pecan Vendor

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Simeon Teague

Character: Obie Walker

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Brenda Dunlap

Character: Mrs. Cowens

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E.A. Thrall

Character: Agent Tubbs

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Kenneth Magee

Character: Agent Reilly

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